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The Gallery of Modern Art, Sofia, Bulgaria - Unravel Travel TV

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Channel: Unravel Travel TV · 2013 · Travel & Events

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The mission of the gallery is to develop the art market for West-European Modern Art and Contemporary American Art in Bulgaria and neighboring countries. The Gallery would like more and more Bulgarians to appreciate and collect modern masters and successful contemporary artists. The gallery has the most significant private collection of original graphic works of famous masters from the 20th century such as Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Matisse, Dali. Other top names in the collection include Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Robert Indiana, Keith Haring, Hunt Slonem and the British contemporary artist Damien Hirst.

The Bulgarian collection pieces include several prints by Christo connected with his projects in Berlin and Abu Dhabi and works of Houben Cherkelov, who currently lives and works in USA. Listed gallery artists have won worldwide recognition and are well positioned in the global art market, their works are subject of an extensive collectors' interest. Further evidence of the serious aims intended by the founders, are the impressive exhibitions that were staged at the gallery. Few to name are the exhibition of the great Picasso, Andy Warhol's exhibition, last years' exhibition of the most influential living artist - Damien Hirst, and the exhibition of the American artist Hunt Slonem, who was very well accepted by the Bulgarian public. The largest exhibition of graphic works of Salvador Dali - "Divine Comedy", ever presented in Bulgaria, happened also here, November 2011. It was one of our most successful exhibitions that attracted many visitors and media attention. Among the other important events were the visit of Eric Mourlot, the successor of the French lithographic Atelie Mourlot. Under the direction of his grandfather - Fernand Mourlot, artists like Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Miro, Braque, Lege, Giacometti enriched their own work with a new medium of expression -- the lithography. Thanks to him, modern lithography took on a personality and found a future. Eric Mourlot came specially to open an exhibition at our Gallery, called "Witnesses of their time" and personally presented 50 original graphic works of the Modern Masters.

In October 2011, the Gallery hosted an exhibition that presented 4 British artists: the father of British Pop Art -- sir Peter Blake, the sculptor Anish Kapoor, Mark Quinn and Damien Hirst. 

The Gallery of Modern Art, Sofia, Bulgaria http://www.modernartgallery.bg/en

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