site.btaTroyan Arts School Teacher Kirov: Christo’s Art an Integral Part of Bulgarian School Curriculum

The work of Christo Javacheff is a mandatory subject in art schools across Bulgaria and even forms part of the school-leaving exam curriculum, Vladimir Kirov, artist and teacher at the National High School for Applied Arts Venko Kolev in Troyan, said at the BTA National Press Club in Troyan on Wednesday.

Kirov was a guest at the presentation of the latest issue of LIK magazine, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Christo Javacheff’s birth and that of his wife Jeanne-Claude. The event took place simultaneously at the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Centre in Gabrovo and in the MaxiM Hall at BTA Sofia. BTA’s national press clubs in other parts of the country and abroad also joined via video link.

“Our students are very interested in all forms of art, and they find what is happening right now especially fascinating. Some of them fully appreciate Christo’s creativity and are impressed by the grand scale of his projects. We have talked at length about the wrapping of the Reichstag, about The Gates, about his Iron Curtain wall of oil barrels—at a time when that really carried profound meaning,” Kirov said.