"Silhouettes in the Mirror" - exhibition of sculptures and mirrors - July 12 - September 8, 2018

During the summer, the Nuance Gallery is pleased to present you "Silhouettes in the Mirror". An exhibition consisting of 15 mirrors from the 19th and 20th centuries and 9 sculptures by contemporary authors. The symbiosis between these works of art, the play with reflections and silhouettes and the recreation of the mysterious stories sealed in the old mirrors is done by the curator of the exhibition Emil Chushev. Exposure has an almost physical impact on visitors' perceptions and raises questions about their spatial perceptions. If you go to the gallery, you are inevitably part of the exhibition. In the mirrors you can see some portraits of the sculptural reflections, through the portraits of everyone in the past in front of the mirror to your personal portrait, broken through your unsuspected perspectives and perspectives.

The mirror is an object that is always loaded with mystical and magical powers. Some call it a tunnel to another world, for others the mirror is a door that can be opened in both directions. Like letting you into another world, and missing other dimensions in yours. That's why the mirror requires special respect and respect. The collection has been carefully and emotionally selected over the past 30 years by France, Italy and Austria. In it there are exhibits in the style of a secession, baroque, preserved are the original glasses of a part of the mirrors, you can see gilded with pink gold and master crafted carving. The sculptures that complement the mirrors are the work of Nelly Hristova, Krum Damyanov, Boris Gondov, Pencho Dobrev, Nina Lysovska, Valentin Mitev and Blagica Zdravkovska.

For hundreds of centuries, wizards and prophets have affirmed that looking into a mirror they see things inaccessible to mere mortals. The scientific knowledge has testified that mirrors are channels of energy flows. Mystical people from all over the world stare at reflective objects - mirrors and fall into special emotional states. This practice dates back to ancient Egypt, a part of Greek mythology goes through Roman sorcerers and medieval magicians, so far, to everyone, where everyone can find their experience by visiting "Silhouettes in the Mirror" at the Nuance Gallery.