The Intuitive Evolution installation presents the process of evolution and integration of people in buildings. The video shows representatives of two generations in their natural habitat through their manner of communication. The computer-generated animation offers a futuristic notion for the situation and human relationships in a daily round depending on technologies.

Evgeni Vassilev born in 1980 has been studying cinema and television at the Visual Arts department of New Bulgarian University. He has been working as a free-lancer; he is into design, graphic design, and video-montage. Member of the Interspace center of media arts.

Galina Dimitrova

SPEECH AND IMAGE

10 March 2004 - 26 March 2004

The year of 2004 is connected with 800 years from the taking over of Constantinople by the army of the Fourth Crusade. The Ivan Duichev Centre of Slavic and Byzantine Research commemorated the event by the Speech and Image exhibition, with one more activity from the agreement concluded in 2003 with the Sofia City Art Gallery aiming to popularize art created in Bulgarian lands and on the Balkans (in 2003 engravings by Hristophor Jeraphovich were shown - a donation by His Holiness The Patriarch of Serbia Pavle, and also works by the contemporary Serbian graphic artist Velko Mihaylov).
Speech and Image includes more than 150 exponents, directly entered the Professor Ivan Duichev Centre of Slavic and Byzantine Research or through the Elena and Ivan Duichevi Foundation after the year 2000, and private persons. They have not been published yet in catalogues or other editions. This is valid for Pavel Panov’s private collection (registered as № 1 of the ‘Stara Sofia’ Municipal enterprise, Sofia Museum of History) and Roumen Manov’s and Petar Hristov’s collections. There are only two panels dating back from 12th century, taken out of the cover of an old-print book, go out of chronological timing of the period between 15-20th century. The rest of the exponents comprise not only 19th but also 20th century.

SPEECH AND IMAGE

10 March 2004 - 26 March 2004

MEETING POINT VESSCULPTURE Vessel Tanev

04 March 2004 - 22 March 2004

Vessel has its clear, overall concept of the sculpture he creates. He works with high technology materials such as brass, phosphor bronze, stainless steel, textolite. His art uses the expression language of industrial production. He utilizes universal machine details and his works remind of industrial design products. The conceptual idea is leading in their creation. The fulfillment is fully based on the principles of mass circulation as per exact preliminary project. As absurd as it may be, their flavor is hidden exactly in this potential re-productivity of the works – an advantage provided by modern technologies.
The presented sculptures are easel works intended for the interior.

SOFIA - A HUNDRED FACES

03 March 2004 - 27 April 2004

The exhibition is dedicated to the 125th Anniversary of proclaiming Sofia the capital of Bulgaria and 75 years from the establishment of a municipal art collection that laid the foundations of the present Sofia Art Gallery.
The gallery’s rich painting collection treating the topic of Sofia includes more than 350 art works (one third of them is shown in the exhibition), purposefully collected for more than six decades. The landscapes and compositions offer us the opportunity to compare more than 100 artists from different generations, representatives of all stylistic trends in Bulgarian art during 20th century – the way they saw Sofia, their preferred urban topics, the city changes from swarming streets and squares to the quiet nooks and outskirts. One city with one-hundred faces.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, with colorful and black and white reproductions of all paintings treating the theme of Sofia from the gallery’s painting fund, and a reference about the artists – bearers of the awards of Sofia in the 40s of the 20th century until present time.