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Awards for contemporary Bulgarian art, M-tel
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Sofia, 2007

In 2007, the exhibition accompanying the M-Tel Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art competition was mounted at the National Palace of Culture (NPC), the largest conference and exhibitions center from the totalitarian period. The rubric “About NPC” in the site of the complex organizational structure governing the compound begins with the following lines: “The National Palace of Culture is a multifunctional complex, a contemporary castle – synthesis of modern architecture and the plastic arts. The magnificent spaces are animated by more than a hundred works of monumental painting, sculpture, woodcarving, gobelin, metal plastic, and other art genres…” Singularly imposing for its time, the building and the adjacent areas are today used mainly for trade shows and are let out in order to sustain financially an architectural colossus, in which “there is more steel used than in the Eiffel Tower.”

The exhibition at NPC was the first to extend beyond the limits of the exhibition hall with two impressive installations mounted in the park and on the bridge spanning Boulevard Bulgaria.

Curated by Irina Batkova

Artists

Bojidar Bontchev

Bora Petkova

Dimitar Nikolaev

Emil Popov

Ivan Roussev

Krasimir Djidrov

Kroum Damianov

Lyuben Kostov

Milan Andreev

Pavel Koichev

Plamen Dejanoff

Rada Dicheva

Snejana Simeonova

Venelin Ivanov

Yana Yunakova

Bogdan Alexandrov

Dimitar Cholakov

Ivan Kostolov

Kiril Jeliazkov

Koljo Mishev

Ludmil Lazarov

Magda Abazova

Plamen Todorov

Rumen Gasharov

Rumen Jekov

Stanislav Pamukchiev

Stefka Georgieva

Stoian Kutsev

Svilen Blazhev

Veselin Nachev

Assadour Markarov

Branko Nikolov

Ivan Ninov

Jordan Parushev

Kiril Cholakov

Michail Petkov

Milko Pavlov

Nikolay Maystorov

Nikolay Petkov

Peter Gospodinov

Rumen Bogdanov

Sevdalina Kochevska

Tzvetan Krastev

Valeri Vasilev

Zahari Kamenov