site.btaUnion of Bulgarian Artists Presents Unexhibited Works by Bronka Giurova and Eliezer Alschech

The Union of Bulgarian Artists presents unexhibited drawings and pastels by Bronka Giurova and Eliezer Alschech from their daughter Deyana Alschech’s personal collection in The Guardians exhibition, the Union of Bulgarian Artists announced.

The opening is on May 8, on May 9 there will be a curatorial tour with Deyana Alschech, and on May 22 an album of the exhibition will be presented.

In 1951, Eliezer Alschech (1908-1983), together with his wife Bronka Giurova (1910-1995) and their two-year-old daughter Deyana left Bulgaria. The initial idea was to go to Israel, but after spending almost a year in Italy, they decided to go to Argentina and permanently settled in Buenos Aires.

"The Guardians exhibition can be considered an attempt to delicately penetrate the innermost creative world of two artists who left a bright trace in the artistic life of our country, and not only, between the 1930s and the 1970s. A visual journey through their legacy of drawings, which brings us closer to their individual passion in their artistic work. To their quests in their growth as painters. To the revolt of World War II and the political, inhuman collisions that followed in our country. To stories of repression and censorship, labor camps, escape in the name of physical survival. But also, to something much more important. The Guardians exhibition is an opportunity to compare how all of this reflects in the art of the two. Although they follow their own individual creative paths, they have chosen to share a common existence, emotions, loves and worries,” historian, publicist and art critic Plamen V. Petrov writes in the exhibition album.

“On the other hand, this is also a story of gratitude to the person who today gives us the opportunity to see the surviving fragments of Bronka Giurova and Eliezer Alschech’s searches. To the person thanks to whom almost two decades ago the return of their pictorial heritage from their second homeland, Argentina, to Bulgaria became possible. To the person who in 2018 gave access to art critics Natasha Noeva, Nikoleta Gologanova, Plamen V. Petrov and Ramona Dimova, curators of the current exhibition, to the family archive of the two artists in order to create the exhibition and the Eliezer Alschech and the Aesthetics of Disgrace publication. A story, in gratitude to the daughter, the living fruit of the love of Bronka Giurova and Eliezer Alschech, architect Deyana Alschech. And last but not least, this exhibition is an effort to preserve through time, to share the knowledge of two creative presences, each with its own individuality in art. Individuals who have a place in the history of Bulgarian art and the processes of its synchronization with the plastic phenomena in Europe in the first half of the last century,” Plamen V. Petrov writes.