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Sofia City Art Gallery and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present
Exhibition by Svetozara Alexandrova
The painter Svetozara Alexandrova realizes this project with her typical straightforwardness of the means of expression. The initial collision with this approach leads to a tense perception.
As a starting material for her works were used passport photos – one of the most standard identification documents, which the author turns into fine art. On one of these two big canvases a woman is painted who has involuntarily closed her eyes. This moment turns into a detail of a whole sequence of microscopic movements. Caught by the lens, it is the missing chain of information, which takes the document beyond validity. In another work a man is pictured in between the blinking of the eyes. Tangible are the signs of the advancing age on the faces of both of them, faces visibly unbeautiful and too specific.
Using these photographs the artist de-structures the time and closes it in separate moments. Moments, covers of reality, which it “hardens” and piles up in layers through painting thus being a hyperbole of the undressed, frozen cover of the human image. Each distortion, wrinkle, disproportion seen as if under a powerful magnifying glass hypertrophy in the huge scale of the canvases.
The sixteen much smaller in terms of format works represent a multitude of faces of young men also made of standard passport pictures. In these series the standard was used as an instrument stressing the individuality. Each face stands out being different and unique. These bright young faces are present with almost an exorcist strength compared to the enormous disharmonic masks of the man and the woman and they make space for serenity between them.
Svetozara Alexandrova has the ability to stare in this layer in which the latent is transparent and to enforce the doubt in it by ripping it shown. She takes it out methodically through the framing through the purely suggestive image and shaping it with the strength of painting. Thus the suspicion on the internal life stands out summoned by the externally expressed.
Vela Mlechevska
Svetozara Alexandrova was born in 1980 in Stara Zagora. In 1998 she graduated the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Sliven, major Artistic textile. In the period 1998 – 2003 she studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts, major Painting, where currently she is a master of arts. She was awarded the following prizes: second prize at the young painters competition of the St. Cyril and St. Methodius Foundations, 2003, incentive prize of the International Students’ Biennale SIAB, Macedonia, 2003; third prize of the young painters competition of Sezoni Gallery, 2002, second prize of the general academic competition School picture 2000 at the National Academy of Fine Arts.
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