What do we want, seek and expect from art
To like it, to reinvent ourselves, to find new messages addressed to us, to see the future, to receive an unknown impulse, a new point of view. That is, a complex interweaving of life’s wisdom, told, drawn in color and form, which encompasses the present and timelessness. Sometimes, even quite often, we receive many times more and this is the moment when we are taken over by the whirlwind of admiration. For a while, we are possessed by this magnetism and feel part of it.
Is this expectation excessive?
No, it is not.
Especially when there are such artists who give us much more and much earlier, such as those who are ahead of their time. They are sensitively insightful, original, with a sparkling spectrum of ideas, versatile education, with high technical capabilities, masters of the complex minimization of plot, style, color and form, multilayered erudites and virtuosos.
I am talking about Milko Bozhkov, generally and specifically.
The current exhibition “South” is based on and inspired by our trip to the South of France. Immediately our thoughts take us to authors such as Cezanne, Matisse, Van Gogh, De Stael and many others.
Mon cher Theo is a painting dedicated to the last months of the life of a brilliant author, Vincent Van Gogh. In the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in the French Saint Remy de Provence, he spent a painful and difficult period of his illness, but no less creative.
The painting before us is a worship of Van Gogh’s genius.
Genius, it develops not for the genius, but for us. Over time, we appreciate more and more deeply the conceptual narrative, the exceptional power and artistic clairvoyance.
Luke 12:48 And from everyone to whom much is given, much will be required, and from whom much is entrusted, of him will be asked the more.
Thank you, Milko.
Anna Halamyan
