"Like old film fragments" by Svetozar Benchev

"Like old film fragments"

Why does the snippet work so hard? Is it because the thinking and perceptions of man are a string of fragments? How many of us see the whole picture?

We live in a fragment of the universe, our living is a fragment of the common, our day is a fragment of Time ...

At the moment or in this fragment, we concentrate everything we carry on - our whole potential. Does not the same thing happen to the fragment? Does not it have encoded information for the whole? And yes and no. Sometimes the whole thing seems unnecessary. We finish his idea of ​​it through our imagination, putting in that notion a fraction of ourselves, so the fragment works more than the whole.

It is said that when you sink into the afterlife, your whole life passes before your eyes in the form of fragments as a movie strip with separate scenes displayed on the screen.

The screen through which we perceive the world is everywhere around us. TV, cinema, telephone, information and advertising. We reconcile our direct impressions of reality, first with it, perceived through it as "more real" than real, it seems to acquire additional value.

If we unexpectedly found a piece of old tape, we kept fragments of our everyday life, our thoughts, inspiration, and feelings, and we designed this band on a screen today whether they will gain new meaning? Do they become more real? Will their value be confirmed or denied on screen?

Those thoughts were leaving me while I was preparing this project. Special formats that create an allusion to a modern 16X9 TV screen, sealed pieces of memories, dialogues made with works and authors, realized and unsuccessful projects, new ideas ...

Their reading, unraveling and revealing is left to the viewer ...

Biography of the author:

Svetozar Benchev, born 1962, professor, dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the National Academy of Fine Arts - Sofia.

Graduate of the National Academy of Arts in 1989, major in painting. Works in the field of painting, painting, ceramics and graphics. His works are owned by the Sofia City Art Gallery, the Art Gallery in Burgas, many private collections in Germany, France, Japan. He teaches painting in Painting and Ceramics at the National Academy of Arts.

Here's what the art-educated Ruja Marinska writes about the work of Svetozar Benchev:

"I find it a symptomatic fact that fate connects Svetozar Benchev with Japan, where he repeatedly exhibits and has his own fans." The self-centered creative drive - an unmistakable sign of Western individualistic culture - in the work of Svetozar Benchev is obviously calmed and exalted by the whiff of Eastern philosophy and the idea of ​​enlightenment.

I think that it is precisely the touch to the East that inspires the artist to look for his personal - because he is still a European - artistic code. Anyway, the artist turns out to be between the West and the East. And his art bears the mark of our time, which no longer accepts imposed regulatory regimes and canons and moves to the authentic worlds of the world born in communicating with all that man has created on this earth.