Gergana Yordanova

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I pass through the wild passion of life and go further embracing the wind with outspread hands. A moment of tenderness touches me and it is a leaf shed by the sigh of trees filled with memories, singing a forgotten song. I step over the threshold and here I am in front of hills, golden and green, illuminated here and there by the fairy radiance of the setting sun... I close my eyes to take a rest and the thoughts quiet down in anticipation of the silence wrapping me gradually with a prayer flying off like an arrow to the mountain tops piercing the perishable daydreaming. Like outspread wings the spirit sweeps along and I rise above the earthly fetters...a Divine radiance welcomes me smiling by my soul. Luminous worlds lay across everywhere carried by the marvelous sigh of the Infinity.
 

I think about the art in general as one of the aspects of life, which brings importance in a context of beauty and sophistication, which is the language of the heart and the soul.

The selection of paintings I represent here I consider as a walk through the genre, which appears as a great opportunity for me to share with you the most complete picture of my art influenced by different impressions. For more than 17 years, I keep working and experimenting with the structure of the composition and the complexity of the richness of the detail and the pictorial stuff of the painting, which always is a process of a deep and powerful spiritual experience. The empty canvas changes, once it`s touched by the great inspiration intertwined with Divine love and nostalgia to the immeasurable, coming from my admiration to the beauty in each detail of the world surrounding us - visible for the simple eye or for the heart and the spirit. It turns in a bearer of message of inner peace and love, and it is a rediscovering of the fine and aesthetic meaning of the picture as an object. Painting is the bridge with the help of which I set off on a distant journey…  

 

She was born  in  Bulgaria.

She graduated masters degree from the faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Turnovo  ”St.St.Cyril and Methodius” in 2003. Up to the moment she has taken part in a number of common exhibitions throughout Bulgaria and abroad.

She has an active participation in the International Art Pleners “Rusalka” Bulgaria  2003 - 2010.

 2006 - Participation in the International Art Plener in Arbanasi, Bulgaria

 2007 - Participation in the International Art Plener in Carlobag, Croatia

Her pictures are a possession of connoisseurs in Bulgaria as well as abroad.

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In her works Gergana Yordanova develops themes from the traditional “Landscape” and “Still Life” genres, as well as Figurative pictures in a modern context emphasizing on the richness of the pictorial stuff and complex detail.
This creates a particular “fairy land“ spirit and “multilayeredness” of this art of painting and makes its impact especially strong. Gergana Yordanova`s paintings can be rediscovered every time again- delicate picturesque harmonies, beautiful factures creating a peculiar vibration- a mixture of acrylic, plastic pastes, graphite and gold and silver.
On the background of the complex picture in the contemporary art these works remind us again that the AESTHETIC meaning remains of primary importance and the picture as an object must be a bearer of vibrating SPIRITUALITY and BEAUTY.

                                                      Nikolai Ivanov OM

 

2006/2007 - she took part actively in the painting the murals of “St.Spas” chapel, situated in the Eastern Rhodopi mountain, Bulgaria.

2006/2007 - she took part in painting the murals of Assumption of Mary Temple in the village of Vladislavtsi, Sofia (author - Nikolai Ivanov).

2009/2010 - she participates in the painting of the Ritual Hall of Mira Funeral Agency, Sofia.

 

2010 - she took part in the last stage of the Restoration of the artistic decoration of Yablansky house - Sofia (nominated as the building of the year /1911 in the category Monuments of Culture). "The respect for history is the basic challenge for architecture which was met with dignity in the project of the restored "House of Yablansky" and turning it into a building with public functions The Residence Exclusive Club. This was highly appreciated by the jury which gave it the prize in the category Monuments of Culture."

 

2011 - she took part actively in the painting the murals of St.Trinity chapel situated in the Eastern Rhodopi mountain, Bulgaria.

2014/2016 - she has been working on the painting of Native American Church Ceremonial items like cedar boxes, bucket sets and so.

Till now: she has been working on the creating of the CD covers  for the new albums of the first Bulgarian ethno, ambient group OM Art Formation.

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Independent exhibitions:

She opens her first independent exhibition in 2003 in her native town Haskovo, gallery Litzo, Bulgaria.

2008 - together with Nikolai Ivanov, gallery Forum, Haskovo,Bulgaria

2009 - gallery"Asen and Ilia Peikovi", Sevlievo,BG

2010 - Bulgarian Culture Institute, Budapest, Hungary

2011 - gallery D`Art Latira, Hativa, Spain

2012 - gallery "Minerva", Grand Hotel Sofia, BG

2019 - International Japanese Institute "Shumei",Crestone CO,USA

 

Participation in Common exhibitions:

2003/2006 Gallery Credo-Haskovo

2005 - Exhibition of the artists from Haskovo in the Parliament of Republic of Bulgaria 2007 - Gallery Forum Haskovo

2008 - Exhibition of the artists from Haskovo in Smolian, Bulgaria

2008 - Exhibition of artists from Haskovo, Spain, Enguera

2008 - GalleryForum Haskovo

2009 - Culture institute Sabandji,Odrin, Turkey

2009 - gallery "Bogoridi",Burgas, Bulgaria

2010 - gallery "Forum",Haskovo, BG

2011 - exhibition "Dream flower", gallery "Hadjistoianovi", National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria

2013 - "Mare Nostrum",Antwerpen, Belgium

2012/2015 - gallery Europe,Sofia, Bulgaria

2016 - Firedworks gallery,Colorado,US