Art Gallery Serdica presents Delya Chausheva with ” Gravitational Push” Oil Painting and Drawing
Period: 16th of September – 17th of October, 2020
Vernissage : 16th of September,2020 (Wednesday) from 5 PM to 8 PM
Art Gallery Serdica presents the exhibition ” Gravitational Push ” – the latest oil painting and drawing works by Delya Chausheva, which will be held from the 16th of September to the 17th of October 2020 in the art space of Zhenski Pazar Market.
In Art Gallery Serdica, the audience will be able to see large-format oil paintings, pastel and charcoal paintings, which reveal to the audience an unsuspected world of abstract shapes and enigmatic spaces created by the artist and inspired by the wonders of the Universe, which Delya Chausheva chooses to call ” Gravitational Push”, and the title of the series of drawings is” Traveling in the shadows “.
Delya Chausheva has been working in the field of abstract painting for many years, eventually building her own recognizable and sustainable handwriting. Her art education is marked by two important names in Polish art – she graduated in Painting with Prof. Jerzy Nowoszielski at the Jan Matejko Academy of Arts in Krakow , and as a second major in Graphics with Professors Weimann and Bush. This determines her more specific and cosmopolitan attitude to the problems of abstract painting and their visual realization. Delya Chausheva has many exhibitions in the country and abroad, she has won national and international awards.
Art critic Dr. Stefania Yanakieva says of the author: “ Abstract painting is considered one of the purest forms of expression, as it allows the artist to communicate freely visually, without being limited by the forms existing in objective reality. It is this freedom of communication that Delya Chausheva offers us. Through her paintings, she shares with us her vision or her illusion about Life and the Universe – an endless cycle of dust specks and giants that is cut by the unexpected, such as the gravitational impulse that completely changes the existence of a comet. It is in this moment of conflict, of coming out of the banal and monotonous, of the sudden blow, which suddenly disrupts the everyday life and completely changes it, that the author is most interested in and she recreates it through her specific expressive language. The smooth, monochrome picture field is permeated by spatial structures resembling broken glass or broken ice mass, however not transparent, but solved in saturated provocative color combinations – red, violet, green, blue … Light, transparent, smoothly applied tones are in conflict with bright accents or dark formations achieved by the accumulation of oil paint. Her compositional solutions are unexpected and challenging, turn the space upside down, experiment with our senses, forcing us to look for non-standard solutions for their perception and meaning. ”
About her work with coal, Delya Chausheva shares that this is her passion. “It’s a strong material, mystical, and to master it you need great experience. My new drawings are an emotion, an irresistible dream . In some of them you can see a very well-mastered technique, while others seem at first glance as a quick sketch. But this is far from the case. Behind these works there is also a long process of reflection and experimentation, but there the impression of spontaneity prevails … Painting with charcoal and black pastel unlocks in me emotions that come out on their own. It’s as if this material was created for me and I have no idea where lies the thin line is between painting and graphics. ” , says Delya Chausheva.
The artist uses the traditional painting material – oil, to create compositions in which the graphic principle is leading.
However, what makes Delya Chausheva’s works so influential and memorable, shares again Dr. Stefania Yanakieva: ” I think that their main quality is that they manage to open the door of our imagination, giving us the freedom to perceive and interpret them according to our own individuality and sensitivity. They manage to unlock our imagination and awaken our desire to see new unknown worlds, as well as to look at our familiar world in a new, different way .
About the Author:
Delia Chausheva
Delia Chausheva was born in Sofia in 1965. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy “Jan Matejko” in Krakow. In 1993, she graduated in Painting under the great Polish artist Prof. Jerzy Nowosielski.
She graduated in Printmaking, as a second subject, under Prof. Weimann and Prof. Bunsh. She is a member of the Union of the Bulgarian Artists.
Delia participates in national and international competitions and exhibitions including:
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Painting and drawing, INTRO Gallery, Sofia
2015 ,2017 Painting, Tandra Gallery,Sofia
2014 Painting and Drawing, Artamontsev Gallery, Sofia
2013 Drawing, Arosita Gallery, Sofia
2012 Drawing, Grojec ,Poland
2011 Painting, Vidima Gallery, Sevlievo
2011 Painting, Rakursi Sofia
2009 – 2011 Painting, Agora, Sofia
2008 Painting,Rakursi,Sofia
2007 Painting and Drawing,Gallery,Cite,internationale des Arts,Paris,France
2007 Painting and Drawing,Gallery,Seasons, Sofia
2006 Painting and Drawing, Polish Cultural Institute, Sofia;
1999 Painting, 11 – Kadinovi Gallery, Sofia;
1999 Painting and Drawing, Arteya Centre, Varna;
1999 Painting and Drawing, Polish Cultural Institute, Sofia;
1998 Painting and Drawing, Irida-Interpred Gallery, Sofia;
1998 Painting and Drawing, Sirakow Gallery, Veliko Tarnowo;
1993 Drawing, Polish Cultural Institute, Sofia;
1991 Painting, Gallery “U Ambrożego”, Krakow, Poland;
Selected exhibitions
2020 “V.I.D.A” virtual international exhibition, Spain
2018, Spaces, Art Gallery Stara Zagora
2018 “Allianz National Competition” (nomination)
2018 “Ilindentsi. Art Zone ”Sofia City Art Gallery
2016 ,, Still life and interior ,, exhibition of painting section, Shipka Gallery 6, Sofia
2016 “European Bridges” International Art Symposium
Museum of Art, Constanta, Romania
2015 International Exhibition “Meetings” Istanbul, Turkey;
2015 National Exhibition “Ludogorie”, Razgrad
2 014 International Exhibition of Drawing, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014 Curatorial Project ‘Untold Abstraction’ Gallery Shipka 6. Sofia
2014 International Exhibition ‘ART/X/TOYAMA’, Japan
2014 ‘Five Artists Together’ exhibition drawing, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia
2013 National Exhibition ‘Ludogorie 2013’, Razgrad
2012 Third Balkan Quadrianalle of Painting, Stara Zagora
2012 International Exhibition ‘232 painters from 40 countries’ 15×15 cm, Lesedra Gallery, Sofia
2012 – ‘Encounters 5 / Lefkosa’, painting, Ataturk Centre Center Exhibition Hall in Lefkosa, North Cyprus
2012 – ‘ Meeting on the Line’, painting, Bulgarian Institute of Culture in Warsaw, Poland
2011 International Travelling Exhibition ‘Man. River. Painting from the Dunav countries’ ‘
’Der Mensch. Der Fluss’’ – Along the river of men.
2011 – ‘Boundless’, painting, rh+ artgallery in Istanbul, Turkey
2010 Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale, China
2009 “Reality and Fiction” exhibition of the painting section, Shipka Gallery 6, Sofia
2009 Exhibition ,,4 Spaces’’-Curator of the project Rumiana Konstantinova, Town Gallery
Sofia
2008 II Balkan Quadrennial of Painting, Stara Zagora;
2008 National Painting Exhibition “Close Distance” Gallery “Shipka” 6, Sofia;
2008 International Exhibition “Tarii Crisurilor” Museum, Oradea, Romania;
2008 International Biennale, Cairo,Egypt
2008 Third Beijing International Art Biennale, China
2007 International Symposium Beratzhausen, Germany (for the BMW collection, Regensburg, Germany)
2007 Personal Traffic, Shipka 6 str. Gallery, Sofia;
2008- 2004 National Drawing and Small Plastic Exhibition, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia;
2006 Real Spaces – Small Plastic and Drawing, Fine Arts Hall, Bratislava;
2006 Friends of the Sea, Contemporary Art Biennial, Burgas;
2006 ІІІ Small Forms Biennial, Pleven;
2006 Space Transformations, Shipka 6str. Gallery, Sofia;
2005 Personal Mythologies, Shipka 6str. Gallery, Sofia;
1995 International Print Triennial, Sofia, Bulgaria;
1994 International Print and Drawing Biennial, Majdanek ‘94, Poland
1994 Young Artists in Krakow, Mischlenitse, Poland, First Prize Winner
1993 VІ International Print and Drawing Biennial, Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Diploma awarded;
1993 International Student Biennial, Maastricht, Netherlands
Awards
2008 III Beijing International Biennale, China, Honorary Diploma;
2007 The award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Cite des Arts, Paris, France.
1994 Young Artists in Krakow, Mischlenitse, Poland, First Prize Winner;
1993 VІ International Print and Drawing Biennial, Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Diploma awarded;
Her works are property of galleries and private collections in Bulgaria, Poland, Germany, Japan and USA, Serbia, Macedonia, Vienna.
Currently, Delia lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
