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Georgi Stojanov is a painter who has arrived at a significant level of abstraction, while still drawing from his knowledge of reality. He can express himself in a sparing manner, working with simple, often only hinted at, and rhythmically ordered ornaments. Some of the symbols used in his paintings point to reality, but simplify it artistically, pointing to its most substantial elements. Others express a deep knowledge of the history of art, and relate to epochs past. His specific expression comes from a knowledge of history, responding to the legacy of ancient cultures as well as to not so distant styles and artistic streams. But his primary inspiration is derived from contemporary life.
The painter has a distinct sense of composition, a feeling for capturing relations between shapes, and for their sensitive arrangement and composition with respect to the whole. He achieves harmonic and still moderately tuned chords of colourful tones. His painting reflects his intimate relation to wildlife and landscape and their transformations. In it intersect energy curves generating from his contemplations of the laws determining the development of nature, space, and our civilisation. It is penetrated with symbols corresponding precisely to his background and the roots which have, from the beginning, accompanied European culture in its complexity and ambiguity. These consciously or subconsciously determine, to a great degree, his expression. Georgi Stojanov also picks up on certain lines of post-war experimental fine art, especially structuralism, which reflected the philosophy of that era, with its existential subtext. In his work, content and form are balanced. The selected exhibition sample shows the various positions of this work, from pure abstraction to an expression, through symbols comprehensible to anyone, to hints of figuration.
PhDr. Jiří Machalický