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From
9th till 20th December 2009, for 12 days, the Art Center RG-21 became
an Open Studio of artists’ tandem Maria Varbanova and Valery Varbanov. In
this prestigious Bulgarian art gallery in the town Ruse Maria and Valery
created
art alive – for the viewers in the gallery, and from all over the world,.
The artists showed
to the wide public the entire creative process and specifics of their
unique collaboration. The artistic process of Maria and Valery
has been
live-streamed 9
hours a day, in a real time on Internet.
“Our
show
was
submitted to the theme “The Forbidden Fruit –Temptation”. On the opening
we
exhibited
5 uncompleted paintings and for 2 weeks we completed
them. We painted
with ordinary brush and air-brush, solo and in collaboration; we
made
multimedia projections of our video-art products. During the show we also
made
two
body-art photo-sessions, projecting our artworks on the bodies of dancers
and shooted
these compositions in photo and video, thus we experimented
in combining the visual art with dance".
Two
days of the show Maria devoteed
in painting one of the 2 Still-Lifes ordered from the Government of Oman
trough an English art-dealer for the Villa of Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin
Said al Said, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Although this Still Life
was
out of the theme of Show Maria had
to make it due to nearing dead-line for the order, furthermore - the aim
of this show was
to intrigue viewers with the creating-process itself, not with the subject
matter of paintings.
During this artists’ presentation in Art Center RG-21
were
also exhibited artworks by Maria and Valery Varbanov – paintings (acrylic
on canvas), and art-photography from their series “The Forbidden Fruit”.
This exhibition contained
“solo” artworks of both artists, as well as artworks created in
collaboration. Valery Varbanov show
large-size-paintings – abstract compositions with realistic elements –
interpretations on the theme. Maria Varbanova exhibit Still Life paintings
– her minimalistic compositions with apples painted in Photorealistic
style.
The artists also show their
hyper-realistic paintings created in collaboration,
as well as their art photography –
projections of apples on nude body.
For the show
has been
announced a detailed Program/scenario with indicated dates and hours of
all artists’ activities – what will be done and when, as well as the time
for interviews and themes for discussions.
During this Reality Show the doors of Art Center RG-21
were
open for the viewers and journalists thus they
were
able to watch artists’ creative process and talk with the artists during
the indicated in the Program time.
The Online Open Studio ended with a Gala
cocktail and
а
short Multimedia Dance Spectacle.This was
also an opening of the Exhibition of Maria and Valery Varbanov in Art
Centre RG-21, in Ruse. |
