“Convergence”

Kalia Kalacheva and Kaloyan Nikolov

Exhibition of painting and photography

Museum of Photography,

Kazanlak, Str. Chudomir

“Convergence” is an exhibition that presents the creative collaboration between the artists Kaloyan Nikolov (photographer) and Kalia Kalacheva (painter). The two met to explore the combination between photography and painting.

The trust between the convergent and laboratory work of the two artists places freedom at the highest level. Painting and photography meet in a new field of intervention, collaborative, together and of course experimental. Photography has its innumerable riches in the digital world – the variations of colours, extremely precise lines and interpretations, on the other hand Kalia Kalacheva’s painting appears as a real gesture, she is able to transform, sometimes to destroy the photography to create a completely new artwork. It offers real sensations, layers of paint interfere in all the layers of the painting, there are spills without control.

The end result is the transformation of the frame into an experience, the edition into a unique work of art, and the laboratory into an exhibition.

 

Kalia Kalacheva

 

Kalia Kalacheva was born in 1986 in Sofia. She graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia in 2011 with a Master’s degree in painting. In the year of her graduation she was awarded the Edmond Demirjian Foundation’s Young Artist with Promising Development Award.

In 2014 she won a place in the Cité des Arts residency program in Paris, France. In 2016 she was included in another artist residency, the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. In 2017, she received special recognition in the Women in Art competition, Orlando, Florida.

In 2020 she received the SBH Young Artist Award at the Friends of the Sea Biennial for Contemporary Art in Burgas. In 2021 the participants of the “National Painting and Sculpture Competition” choose her as the winner in the painting category.

Kalia Kalacheva’s paintings are part of the collections of the Hugo Woutin Art Centre in Belgium, Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy, the National Art Gallery in Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery and private collections in Bulgaria, Great Britain, USA, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Serbia, Slovakia and others. Kalia has had over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 general national and international exhibitions.

 

Kaloyan Nikolov

 

Graduate of The National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Kr. Sarafov ”(NATFA), where he graduated in “Film and Television Editing” and “Film and Television Production”, and is currently a PhD student focusing on interactive cinema and virtual reality. He is developing projects in the field of virtual reality. His interest in cutting-edge technology often leads him to experiment. One of the creators of Sofia VR Fest; the project “Photogrammetric Capture of Architectural Elements from the Secession Period”; the presentation of Bulgaria at the Quadrennial in Prague in 2019 with the project “Konglomerat” as part of the VR team; producer, cinematographer and editor of the dance VR film “Control” and others. He has participated in a number of photography workshops and trainings.

This exhibition marks his debut as a photographer.