Ventsislav Zankov Bulgaria Follow

Fading Memories

Year 1995
Type Oil
Size 57.1 × 49.2 in

n the painting “Fading Memories” from 1994, even the composition itself speaks of how the make-up beauty from the period of the transition to liberal democracy turns away from Debelyanov’s sentimental poetry from the textbooks. If the era of socialism censored eroticism in art, high art in the 1990s mocked the sentimental, the idealised, and all the visible marks of the old craft. By education, Zankov is a sculptor and his first paintings were untouched by the heavy hand of academic painting. The images come directly from photos in fashion magazines and from advertisements....

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