This year VK Art Gallery participates again in ArteBilbao with a large selection of artworks: drawings, prints, oil paintings and portraits by the artists Paloma Ferrari and Valentin Kovatchev.
Paloma Ferrari will present an attractive collection of oil paintings in which the main protagonist is the beauty of the female figure, like “Silk”, “The Old Mermaid”, “Four Seasons”, among others.
Valentin Kovatchev presents the etching “Virgen de Begoña” and the unique composition of sixteen miniatures in oil, titled “Guggenheim I to XVI”, made specifically for the Salon. Among other works he participates with the large oil painting “Matador”, published as title page of the journal Clarín Taurino, “The Sibyl and the horse” and the Series “Erosion”, composed of seventeen Byzantine icons.
The stand will also feature a special graphical presentation about the process of the preparation and engraving of the zinc plates with Kovatchev’s particular etching technique.
VK Art Gallery and the Salon Management have also organized a score of parallel cultural activities, focusing on the projection of the audiovisual documentary “Valentin Kovatchev and the art of engraving”, which will demonstrate through a historic walkthrough the engraving as the forerunner of new technologies and the lecture “Kovatchev between painting and engraving” by Mr. Carlos Alfonso Saiz Valdivielso, Academician by the Royal Academies of Fine Arts of San Fernando and Moral and Political Sciences.
With these innovative features the Salon marks the beginning of a new period and new objectives, where the visitor can participate actively in all scheduled educating activities and enter in the
ArteBilbao
II Fine Art and Antiques Show
1 to 9 October 2011
AlhóndigaBilbao
Plaza Arriquibar, 4 Bilbao
Program:
- Conference
“Kovatchev between painting and engraving”, by Mr. Alfonso Carlos Saiz Valdivielso
October 6th, 2011 at 20:00 hrs. - Projection of documentary
“Valentín Kovatchev and the art of engraving”
Every day at 13:30 h. and 19:30 h.
Opening times: From 12:00 hrs. to 21:00 hrs.
Entrance fee: 4 euros
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