Vesselin Nachev

You collect pieces of the crumbling world.
You rearrange them into paintings.
A sense of wholeness? Creativity? An alternative to Reality? Reality is indifferent to your experience. You gracefully bypass practicality, the god of defeat is on your side. And you know, those things over there are absolutely useless, they are probably art.

Vesselin Nachev

What I want to share with you today is a kind of personal summary of everything seen and experienced so far with and through the paintings of Veselin Nachev. Whether we see them today or yesterday, the canvases are a treasure trove of the visible and the invisible, of memories, of states with and without a future, of laconic revelations of a moment, of a fateful moment.

Veselin Nachev leads us beyond the known and the expected, the questions remain unanswered, he is absolutely distant from any formal completeness. The psychological drama does not scream, it remains in its subtle delicacy, the broad impact of which provokes deep rethinking and a differentiated reaction. The emotional imprint left in the characterization of the conditional environment in which the figures are placed has a very strong dramaturgical concept and context. The expressive expression of the brush, the choice of colors, the application of layers are an absolutely figurative and meaningful suggestion and complement.

For me personally, the strongest moment in Nachev’s work is the delicate, insightful narrative, even in a moment of extreme drama he does not finish speaking, but remains an observer. Veselin Nachev suggests, he suggests to us, he asks us or tells us: “Me too, “I was there too”, as in the painting of the same name.

The magnetism of his works is not only in the drama of the moment, but in the capture of the soul’s mystery in depth, translated into color, form, space and above all because it is achieved with infinite finesse, with precise artistic expression, but with a laconic artistic gesture.

A free translation of a thought by Paul Auster on the subject of art: “If we really want to achieve something, especially in art, we must have the courage to enter those deep places that we do not enter with pleasure. Those places within ourselves that give rise to fear and sadness. This has nothing to do with the outside world.”

This is what I feel every time I am faced with the impressive canvases of Veso Nachev, he always gives me a chance to find myself, searching for myself in the labyrinths of his works.

And you? What do you think?