site.btaExhibition by Plamen Bonev to Open at Sofia's Contrast Gallery on Jan. 21

Artist Plamen Bonev will present the painting exhibition Shore – Boundlessness on January 21 at Sofia's Contrast Gallery, the exhibition’s curator Ivo Aleksiev said on Thursday.

He noted that Plamen Bonev is part of the “golden generation of artists born in the 1950s.”

“These are artists many of whom we already regard as living classics. Not only talented, but masters of their craft in its finest details. Particularly valuable as bearers of living, human art – untainted and uncorrupted by the farce ushered in by IT technologies and artificial intelligence,” the curator added.

Plamen Bonev was born in 1954 in Sofia. He lives and works in Blagoevgrad. In 1979, he graduated from the National Academy of Arts. Since then, he has taken part in more than 150 group exhibitions and has held over 30 solo shows. For a period of twenty years, he worked as a stage designer at the Puppet Theatre in Blagoevgrad. He has received more than ten awards for painting and three for stage design.

His works are part of the collections of the National Art Gallery, nearly all galleries in Bulgaria, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the municipality of Dudelange (Luxembourg), Recelles Castle, the gallery of the city of Olsztyn (Poland), as well as banks in Bulgaria, Germany and elsewhere. His paintings are also held in private collections in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Uruguay, France, Belgium, Romania, Greece and North Macedonia.