Category: EXHIBITIONS

Stanimir Genov is an artist focused on his personal experiences, which – in his own words – he wants to relive through the painting process rather than describe. This “repetition” of experience enables him to disrupt the familiar course of things and enter new territories. It is this process of letting go of accumulated thoughts and emotions that turn into other thoughts and emotions that is the basis of Stanimir Genov’s amusing “play” with the matter of painting.

In the current exhibition “There are much nicer planets in the universe than Earth”, prepared in the period 2021-2022 especially for Structura Gallery, he again focuses on a particular theme that preoccupies him – the increasingly frequent speculation about life on other planets as a possible escape from our failed mission on Earth.

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Plain / 2019

Stanimir Genov’s new exhibition, especially created for Contemporary Space, is entitled Plain. The exhibition consists of five canvases, which embody the material expression of the works, at the same time they are 5 squared, minus 5 x 2 = 15 compositional variations. The modular system of the plane is recreated in perfect decorative forms, which, however, vibrate under the tension of their inner intersected or unreached color denouement. It was left under the stencil, erased or unpainted, invisible anyway. The situation, in which Genov sets things in his characteristic style, is tense as an emotion and powerful as a phenomenon that opens up references to several current problems in art that are mutually derivative as before. Functions of his diverse experience not only in art.

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Some thoughts doesn’t move / 2018

In the space of Cu29 you will be able to see seven canvases, a wall and to lean your head оn а picture over a sofa.

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Bouquet / 2018

Stanimir Genov works mostly with painting but he simultaneously experiments vastly with various media, materials and techniques. In his paintings, frames sometimes transform into details of the work of art itself. Or the paintings are connected as parts of an installation. He developed this project using oil paints, watercolours and colour chalk, as well as employing different techniques of building abstract images and applying paint. He also chooses carefully the titles of his works and thus they are given an important role as part of the work of art. The title “Bouquet” is expressive of the artist’s wish to use the word both literally and figuratively, and to expand its possible interpretations.

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Avalanche / 2016

The exhibition by Stanimir Genov presented at Contemporary Space, Varna is entitled “Avalanche”, something that is not typical for the region. The paintings exhibited in this “show” invoke another avalanche – a dense, total, at times psychedelic, colorful territory – neither a landscape, nor an abstract composition. Undefined inner state, which finds its visual expression in avalanche of forms, pre-images, almost-figures, quasi-spaces, half-gestures, etc.
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Exhibition / 2015

The Exhibition, created especially for the leading Bulgarian gallery in showing ainting. It features three series of works, Outside, I Want You in My Place and Other.

As a “universal artistic model”, it offers an extensive view of the artist’s internal landscape. The works, as in previous projects by Genov, lead a classical technique of high art use to the borderline territory of aesthetic excess. Without leaving, just the contrary, emphasizing the fineness as characterizing art, the author offers a new hierarchy in the traditional realia, coming from the cataclysms of contemporary society.

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Paintings / 2012

„PAINTINGS“ The story that always unfolds around oeuvres of painting, the so called „paintings” has always been limited or rather restrained to the use of language. Whenever it has succeeded to escape from the descriptiveness of imagery, at the intersection with art, a piece degrades to a semantic phrase the moment it faces the viewer-interpreter. The problem of language, however, is that it is incapable of reaching directly those layers of the human psyche, that are accessible through the use of metaphor, myth, allegory and other trespassing-further forms. Here, the poetics of the anthropomorphic shapes of these flesh-thick creatures, organs and members are tied up in compositionally impossible knots. Stanimir Genov attacks the layers of the psyche literally with thick paint, untouchable by other means. On them, he uses the conventional canvas as a hellish representational screen where the signs of struggle are left, exposing or illuminating numbers of pathological silhouettes hiding in the white. These are silhouettes of autonomous organs „organically” clenched into each other. A knot that can describe or refer, but moreover acts pre (and post) verbally, outside the realm of language, beyond and beside the system. So, around the so called „paintings” a story develops and begins unfolding. A story about the system and its inconsistence, of the horribly defective life forms stacked within it. The story goes on about a hellish congregation of autonomous organs, but should not continue in order to preserve the „painting”.
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Clear! / 2011

LED lights, 2-cannel video, installation view
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