BAC Madara Art Gallery in collaboration with Springstep is pleased to present Georgi Petrov's exhibition "Password Love". Through the universal language of painting, Georgi Petrov succeeds in depicting love and bringing the contemporary vision of his home in Bulgaria to the United States.

Alfa Art Gallery is pleased to present Georgi Petrov’s exhibition “Password Love”, a solo show featuring for the first time images from the artist’s internet exhibition by the same name. Through the universal language of painting, Georgi Petrov succeeds in depicting love and bringing the contemporary vision of his home in Bulgaria to the United States.

About the artist by Melissa Torro

Georgi Petrov was born in Dobrich, Bulgaria and currently lives and works in Sofia. He graduated from the Technical University of Forests, and he earned MA in Art Management from the Academy of Music, Dance and Visual Arts in the town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He owns an art gallery in the town of Dobrich.

With the help of internet technology, Georgi Petrov has had the chance to share his artistic vision online with friends and fans around the world “winning their admirations in a virtual space”. His notoriety has now brought him to New Brunswick where viewers may experience his paintings face to face. The “universal code of Love” is the driving force behind this body of work, appealing to every audience class. He explores the emotion through painterly gestures and vibrant colors, using both abstract and representational methods as a vehicle. His abstract pieces often utilize a limited palette of warm tones and fast, energetic brushstrokes that lend themselves to an overall sense of passion. His realist pieces, drawing inspiration from images of his hometown in Bulgaria, communicate a true sense of peace and belonging reflecting images from nature.

About “Password Love”

Melissa Torro
What was your inspiration and/or visual sources for this particular body of work?

Georgi Petrov
My exhibition PASSWORD LOVE is a result of unique opportunity, that Facebook provides – to share out messages through presenting my paintings online, to make new friends and fans worldwide, winning their admirations in a virtual space. Started in Facebook, my online exhibition will become real at Alfa Art Gallery in New Jersey. I become the mediator and the active side in this encounter between two cultures and two worlds being thousands of miles apart. This whole thing inspires me and let me get my art closer to 21st century innovations.

Melissa Torro
What conclusions or meaning can the audience pull from the title, “Password Love”?

Georgi Petrov
“Password Love” is a tempting message to everyone who is familiar with the universal code of Love.
“Password Love” presents good intentions, sincerity, bleakness, positivism, and emotion to everyone who sympathizes with such messages and yearns for opening them up in the space which could be entirely theirs.
“Password Love” is a territory of love in its various dimensions.
“Password Love” is a ticket to being in someone’s shoes and to the feeling of empathy.
“Password Love” is love in colors and interpretations that blow up, excite and conquer.
“Password Love” is a new vision OF BULGARIA, FOR BULGARIA, a new vision of the Bulgarian mentality, spirit and culture.

The opening of the first Facebook exhibition of oil paintings “Password Love” in our county took place on 12 February in Radisson Hotel our capital. The event was opened by the well known connoisseur of fine arts and collector of paintings Lyuben Dilov Junior. With overt sympathy and inspiring sense of humor Lyuben Dilov Junior fascinated the audience bringing to their attention the paradoxical fact: that Facebook turned out to be a mediator for his acquaintance with the artist’s pictures that happened two months ago, and provided him with the possibility to meet the artist in person and directly see his paintings two hours before the opening of the vernisage.

A short reportage from the opening of the exhibition

Georgi Petrov dedicates his unique exhibition “Facebook – Password Love” to his fans and friends. The event unites three cycles of paintings some of which will be exhibited abroad in two months for the enjoyment of his present and future fans there. In April and May this year, the talented artist will participate in exhibitions in the USA on the occasion of the days of the Bulgarian culture, as well as in Budapest.

“In art, you have to be the fist one who feels happiness while creating the work of art and if this does not happen, you can’t be sure somebody else will feel it,” says the artist Georgi Petrov for whom oil paining is “heartbeat, love, perception, mood; sometimes it is spontaneous but it is always done with an open soul.”

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In the beginning of the winter art season, LIK Gallery in the Bulgarian capital will give the admirers of fine arts and vibrant colors the sunny “Fairytales from Infinity”. These tales have been created by two young painters who have already established their reputation in the artistic space – Aleksandrina Karadjova and Georgi Petrov.

The exhibition presents their pictures drawn in dry pastel as well as oil paintings, in which the different sensitivity of the female and male element is eloquent, and looking for the fairytale essence that surrounds us. The two artists who were born on one and the same date share their contagious exhilaration with life that begets whirlwinds of emotions and impetus of the strokes giving the spectators a sense of infinity.

The official opening of the exhibition “Fairytales from Infinity” will take place on 5 November 2009 at 19.30 hours in LIK Gallery (37 Laios Cosuth Street), and you can see the exposition until 25 November.

We have the pleasure of inviting you to the official opening of the exhibition “The Fifth Season”. The painter Georgi Petrov offers us an unbelievable play of colors and perceptions caught in a series of impressionistic oil paintings.

The author interprets the fifth season as the season of love. He presents paintings he created last year. This is his odd breakaway from reality towards abstract freedom. There, imagination can get some rest from the visible reality and concreteness, forming its own world – a chapel (sentiment, emotion, movement, yearning, open light, intimateness, mysterious blooming, illusions, invisible naivety, aroma of spring,  beautiful sadness,  smiling, noiseless love, spontaneity)…
“It is not an infatuation, not a caprice, not a pose; it is a vital necessity of spiritual hygiene and preservation of human entity.”

The oil paintings are created along Myriam Alter’s music: sincerely, with an open soul, spontaneously, finding one’s self.

Welcome to “Jessica’s House” until 28 April 2009 in the town of Sofia, 220 Botevgradsko Shosse Street, Showroom “Jessica”

A short reportage from the opening of the exhibition

In the online gallery you will find paintings inspired by Europe and Bulgaria, as well as abstract paintings. “Sense of Eternity” “In the Winter”, “In the Atelier” and “European landscapes” are the basic topics through which the painter rediscovers the world that surrounds him and makes the spectators involved with it.