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The visual arts festival
August in Art was started
as a project and first realized
in 2000. The curators of the
City art museums and
the private gallery owners,
together with the artists
from Varna, decided to start a
larger and more significant
event connected with visual
arts.
The international biennial
of prints which also takes place
here, is connected
to only one type of plastic
art and cannot appease the need
for an up-to-date, profound and
more comprehensive presentation
of the artistic processes
and phenomena
in contemporary art.
The visual arts forums existing
in Bulgaria mainly present one
separate art form (painting,
sculpture, photography, prints,
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videoart, performance,
installations, etc.) or are
rather smaller in view of number
of participants and events, such
as the Process/Space festival in
Balchik and The Autumns
Exhibitions in Plovdiv.
The creation of a
large-scale significant national
forum of the visual arts in the
country with international
participation aims at initiating
a cultural event which will
gradually
turn into an important
international biennial.
With its multitude of art
galleries and museums,
rich
exhibition activity and
a number
of renowned and popular in
Bulgaria and abroad artists,
Varna is one
of the biggest and
most active centers of visual
arts in the country.
It is
possibly the best place for such
a forum.
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All other arts – music,
the theater, ballet, the cinema,
jazz and folklore – have their
own renowned International
festivals here.
The sea town of Varna offers the
best possible conditions for the
realization of such a feast of
the arts – as is intrinsically
any one festival - with its
wonderful artistic atmosphere,
with its possibilities to
attract and gather in one place
more artists, audiences and
Bulgarian and foreign visitors, and all that in the month of
August when the other big
artistic centers are bereft of
an active artistic life.
Author of the concept and the
slogan of the festival is the
art critic Rumen Serafimov. |
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