"Bulgaria" - land of ancient cultures, 1981

Angel Stanev, 1947 and Emil Popov, 1951

Technique, material: bronze

Dimensions: 300/2960 cm.

Emil Danailov Popov (1951)

Graduated sculpture at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia under prof. Lyuben Dimitrov. Small sculpture and monumental sculpture work. Lecturer and professor at the National Academy of Arts. Works by Emil Popov are owned by the National Gallery, SGHH and art galleries in the country, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, , the National Museums of Warsaw and Prague, the Dante Museum in Ravenna, the MOST Museum in Norway, the collection of Peter Ludwig in Aachen (Germany) and Hugo Wooten in Belgium.

Emil Popov is certainly not neo-avant-garde, on the contrary - he is one of the most popular artists, facing the spiritual matter.

The bold move about him is that he shows this folkliness and spirituality in a free way that is not bound by classical conventions in art.
The author is excited by fundamental questions about man as a species - ancestral memory, faith, human nature, the value of life, which is contrary to most modern practices in art, which rather aim to scandalize, provoke and emphasize the grotesque, in which we live.

Angel Ivanov Stanev (1947)

Graduated decorative-monumental sculpture at the Art Academy under prof. Velichko Minekov. Since 1977 participated in OHI as well as the Sculpture Symposium in Lindabrunn, Austria, the 1979 USA Art Fair. He received the "Ivan Lazarov" monumental sculpture award, as well as the "Marko Markov" easel sculpture award. Honorary professor at the National Academy of Sciences.

With a technical, academic and elegant approach in each of the bronze blocks they "seal" moments, important moments of our millennial history.

In the center of the panel, they use the principles of the circular composition, and through the stylized figures and components, time is implied as a symbol through the image of a stylized clock.

Mezzanine West