site.btaOver 200 Works by 40 Italian Artists to Be Displayed in Union of Bulgarian Artists Gallery

Over 200 works by 40 Italian artists from the collection of Georgi Zabchev and Vanya Zabcheva and their partners in collecting art, Luigi Martini and his daughter Monnalisa Martini, will be displayed in an exhibition entitled "Italian Art Under the Tiles. 20th - 21st Century. Zabchev Collection". It will open on June 9 at the gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA), the organizers said on Wednesday.

The exhibition reveals one of the richest private collections of Italian art, created thanks to the long-standing friendship between the Ravenna-born Luigi Martini and Georgi Zabchev from the village of Kovachevitsa in Southwest Bulgaria.

The exhibition is divided into three thematic spaces. In the first hall, visitors will see works by Giorgio de Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Renzo Vespignani, Asen Peikov and Boris Georgiev.

The second hall is dedicated to figurative art and includes works by Mario Sironi, Lucio Fontana, Giacomo Manzu, Zoran Music and other representatives of figurative painting from the 1940s to the beginning of the 21st century.

The third hall will present abstract art through works by Enrico Accatino, Vasco Bendini, Gio Pomodoro, Emilio Scanavino, Guido Strazza, and Emilio Vedova. The selection traces the development of abstract trends in Italy – from the surrealist influences of the 1930s to post-war Art Informel and freer artistic forms.

The curators of the exhibition are Aksinia Dzhurova and Luigi Martini.