Far from here... - exhibition by Dimitar Petrov

Dimitar Petrov Far from here... 1 - 19 March 2022 opening: 1st March from 5pm until 7pm

The exhibition "Far from here" takes us through the latest creative research of Dimitar Petrov's love and attitude to nature. Among the exhibited paintings you find yourself surrounded in a world of pure gratitude for life. Each painting is an experience, a portrait of emotion and excitement, expression of one's own voice and a sense of uniqueness of life in its various changes. His way of painting is a view of nature, but not to be understood literally, more to be used as an occasion in a work that oscillates the frequency of emotion between colors and shapes. The peculiar compositions between the abstract and the concrete are often a mirror image of the author himself and an inner union with the diversity in nature. The moment in which it is possible to move beyond mental constructions and to peek beyond form, to transcend the limits of the logical and to reveal a spiritual essence that is difficult and inexpressible in words.

Dimitar Petrov was born on April 18, 1969 in Kyustendil. He graduated from the The High School of Fine Arts in Sofia in 1988. In 1996 he graduated from the National Academy of Arts, majoring in Fresco Painting. Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 1995. He made a one-year creative stay in India in 2000. He won a national competition for creative specialization at the Cite International des Arts, Paris, France in 2010. Participates in over 100 joint and solo exhibitions in the country and abroad. He has won a number of awards, including: Award for painting from the national exhibition “Ludogorie” 2019. Award for painting from the National Exhibition – Biannale “Friends of the Sea” Burgas in 2012 Painting Award – Balkan Quadrennial of Painting, Stara Zagora, 2004 First prize – national competition for a work of art on a wall, Sofia 2001 Sorus Center for the Arts Award for Young Author from the International Triennial of Painting, Sofia 1995 He has repeatedly won the Struma Prize for Painting, as well as many others. Dimitar Petrov’s paintings are in possession of the Kyustendil Art Gallery, the Burgas Art Gallery, the Stara Zagora Art Gallery, the Razgrad Art Gallery, as well as collections in Europe, Asia and North America.