Rapture, energy, and love are the constant elements on which Milko Bozhkov builds every painting. In this sense, every appearance of his is more than an anticipated celebration.

Milko Bozhkov belongs to that generation of artists who outlined territories of their own in contemporary Bulgarian painting. Each one of his paintings stakes on the balance between the conceptual basis and the skilful approach to a means as traditional as painting.

Milko Bozhkov is an artist whose imagination transcends the standard expression turning the plane of the canvass upside down thousands of times so as to find its adequate imagery.

“Everything in art has already been invented. It’s not important to live with the thought that you have to be a great artist but to discover your own uniqueness. Only time can place things into their places. A painting becomes good when you create it with pleasure and at the end you are happy with it – this is what the public also feels. To paint you also need an occasion. Often it is completely accidental and it might have nothing to do with what you’ll paint. To me technique is a means and not an end. You have to know the alphabeth so as not to feel helpless before your own manoeuvres.” Milko Bozhkov

 

The exhibition presents 12 paintings created in the last two years. The unifying element is the polypthych as a form preferred by the author.

Most of the works are large format ones and have been displayed in several parts.

 

Svetlana Kuyumdjieva