site.btaYavor Boyanov Presents Ego Death Exhibition of Abstract Paintings in Sofia

Ego Death is the fourteenth solo exhibition by Yavor Boyanov and the first in which the artist turns to fully abstract painting. The exhibition opens on June 12 at the Rakursi Gallery in Sofia and will continue until July 1, the organizers announced on Tuesday.

“Inspired by the psychedelic era of the 1960s and 1970s of 20th century, and the ideas of expanded consciousness and inner revelation, Boyanov creates a series of works signed under the pseudonym Psychonaut. The exhibition marks the final part of an unofficial trilogy, following two previous shows - The Aeon of the Postartist (2018) and The Flesh, or the Absurd Existence of Unconscious Pieces of Meat (2024) - which explore opposing poles of human experience: the spiritual awakening and the degradation of the body,” the organizers said. 

They explain that “at the heart of the exhibition lies an abstract presence without body or face, provisionally named The Psychonaut — a figure not visualized but perceptibly present. He is not a character within the paintings, but rather the one who has seen, traversed, and left behind traces of the journey. Thus, the author disappears entirely behind the pseudonym - not as an act of concealment, but as a deliberate distancing from authorship in its traditional sense. Drifting through ego disintegration, The Psychonaut is a recorder of inner landscapes. He is pure awareness, moving through explosions of form, color, and fragments of the unknown.”

The artist said that he has dedicated the exhibition to the memory of his unforgettable teacher and friend, Marin Podmolov.

Yavor Boyanov was born in 1985 in Sliven (Southeastern Bulgaria). He graduated in Poster Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, and later in Cinema and TV Arts from the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. He is the author of three films: The Model (documentary, 2012), Monologue of an Emo (short, 2010) and Narcissus (short, 2009). He is the author of 12 solo exhibitions, including The Aeon of the Postartist (2018) Cut-Ups (2020), In Search of Things (2021) and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad.