Blagoevgrad Hosts Exhibition Uniting Artists from Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia

A textile collage by Bulgarian artist Angelina Stancheva. Photo by Anna Bashuk

Novinite is publishing a report by Anna Bashuk, a third-year Journalism student at the American University in Bulgaria, about an exhibition that is currently on display in the city of Blagoevgrad (where the university is based).

An art exhibition named I Respect the World of Others, previously known as Angelina and Friends, has come to the Municipal Art Gallery in Blagoevgrad. It has been around since 2004 and biannually visited European galleries. The exhibition consists of 62 pieces of artwork produced by 26 artists from Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia, and it will be open to public from Mar. 27 to Apr. 12. The schedule, however, is flexible, and the director himself is not sure about the end date of the exhibition yet. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Blagoevgrad is a town in Southwestern Bulgaria with a population of around 70,000 people. According to Ivan Milushev, the director of the gallery, local community is not art-oriented. The average amount of visitors to the gallery per month is around 500-700 people, including those attending official openings of the exhibitions and students and schoolchildren invited by the director. As a rule, a single exhibition stays in place for 20 days but if visitors show increasing interest, the period can be extended to a month. The comments and opinions of other professional artists also influence the length of the display.

The artworks comprising the current exhibition are diverse. From Angelina Stancheva's textile artworks to Serbian artist Jovana Mitich's sketch-looking miniatures, from large Doncho Zahariev's Sea Impressions to Sasho Evtimov's still lifes, and from mythological scenes by South...

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