site.btaContemporary Art Is All About Jazz, Says LIK Magazine Editor-In-Chief

Contemporary art, in a sense, is all about jazz, Editor-in-Chief of LIK magazine Assoc. Prof. Georgi Lozanov said here on Friday on the occasion of the new issue dedicated to jazz music and jazz festivals in Bulgaria.

He pointed out that jazz is an aesthetic territory of constant improvisation and that improvisation is actually freedom of interpretation. "Since the 1960s, interpretation has become freer and more multidirectional", Lozanov recalled, adding that since Umberto Eco, it has been perceived for a work of art that the more readings and the more interpretations it manages to provoke and the more different they are, even quarreling with each other, the more significant this work is. This formula has been in jazz since its very beginning, he noted.

“That’s why I think that through jazz we continue to feel the contemporary spirit of art, and this gives people a reason to naturally, again and again, create festivals. In turn, these festivals have a special significance, not only as a stage for jazz, but also as an opportunity for it to create its own new audiences, both generationally and in different parts of Bulgaria,” Lozanov said.

In his words, the mystery of the magazine's new issue is why there are so many jazz festivals in Bulgaria: “We were all more or less surprised. And besides, they are swarming. There continue to be more and more new festivals. About a dozen a year. I have been involved in culture for over 40 years. This was a discovery even for me. And I started thinking about why exactly jazz is perceived in this way and somehow becomes the face of a cultural process," LIK's Editor-in-Chief commented, concluding that for this reason, LIK magazine has been dealing with jazz more or less since its very inception 60 years ago.