The festival August in Art
is conceptualized as a larger
and broader than life review of
contemporary processes
in the
visual art, tolerant of the
stylistic variances in it,
evading the favouring
of a
single trend or tendency.
He
aspires to represent
the whole
diversity of the contemporary
artistic expression as a visual
language, means, material and
technologies.
Its Slogan, August in Art,
visualizes not only the month of
its carrying out, but also some
more significant symbolic
meanings expressing its
founders wish to present the
more valuable and aspiring acts
of artistic creativity.
The various exhibitions in
different museums, galleries and
non-standard spaces,
the
everyday presentations, artistic
activities, meetings
of colleagues and
discussions, the musical,
theatrical and literary salons,
enriching the program,
create this
specific
and
wanted festive atmosphere
and offer the artistic circles
and audiencesa meaningful spiritual
experience.
The successful editions
of the
festival so far reveal the
significant potential and great
versatility, scope and
perspective of the so-devised
August in Art project.
The character, level and
organization of the festival
have received the acclaim
of the
most authoritative Bulgarian
critics, the media, the gallery
owners, the artists and the
admirers of art.
They define the
August in Art Festival as a high
quality,
very significant and a
very necessary forum of the
visual arts, which does not have
an analogue in Bulgaria.
In this
context the festival has already
proved its worth and place in
the cultural life of the nation.
A distinguishable characteristic
of the festival is that the
municipal museums and private galleries in Varna
unite and work together in their
endeavour to reveal the best
in Bulgarian art irrespective
of
their different professional
status and specifics.
No compromise with the
artistic quality of the
presented work in favour of
commercial interests and aims is
allowed. This festival is not a
fair of art and commercial
approaches
do not figure there.
The August in Art festival has
accepted and preaches tolerance
and dialogue
as the main
principles in the attitude
towards art, artists
and
cultural institutions,
as well
as towards the selecting,
programming and realization of
the very event.