site.btaDesislava Mincheva Displays Works Inspired by India

Desislava Mincheva will display the exhibition Varanasi at the Gallery Bugary in Sofia. The exhibition will open on June 10 and will last until the 29th, and is curated by Axinia Dzurova, organizers said.

According to the team, the artist portrays through her works the subtlest human emotions and natural states of India and specifically the magic of Varanasi.

"Anyone who has had the chance to visit India is captivated, not to say obsessed, by what this country, people, nature and historical heritage combine to bring together - from the generosity to carry the wisdom of the ages to the hardships they are put through to bear it. Perhaps its music, that lingering stretch of tone, sums up what India is all about. At least it was for me, until I saw the paintings, not the landscapes, but precisely the paintings of Desislava Mincheva of Varanasi, the old Benares," says Axinia Dzurova.

Desislava Mincheva was born in 1956 in Sofia. She graduated from the National Academy of Arts, majoring in painting in the class of Svetlin Rusev. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions at home and abroad - Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, Skopje, Kokkola and Kannus (Finland), Xi'an and Hangzhou (China). She is a laureate of the Zachary Zograf National Painting Award for 2020. She is a professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts and a member of the executive bureau of the Union of Bulgarian Artists.