An exhibition entitled “Landscapes, Alphabet”, a creative collaboration between Bulgarian fashion designer and lecturer Nikolay Pachev and Swiss painter Sarah Burger opens on July 11 at 6pn at the Doza Gallery, 52 Tsar Samuil Street in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia. The exhibition is a spatial installation composed of small aquarelle paintings by Sarah Burger, which have been transformed into large-scale collages by her and into sculptural garments by Nikolay Pachev. These objects complement each other and explore new horizons in art, combining the aesthetics of landscape and fashion in a unique symbiosis.
Speaking about the concept, Burger recalls a quote that suggests landscape paintings are a way to avoid emotions. “I don’t consent. In every landscape, there is a shift from real to potential; there is light and wandering time.
There are always horizons, even if unseen. A set of signs. Usually determined, in this case, open.
“Shapes and textures on the rim of recognition. In relation to words for known, yet undefined themselves, somewhere along this transition from real to potential or potential to real. I’ve wanted my hands to return to lines and shapes and bodies.
“By lighter and darker, by color and by aim. No command-Z, nor glossy glass. A different temptation.
Curling air in the moment of decision whether to add another line or not. And if yes, and if it goes wrong because it flattens a so-far tension or expands a subtle shape into an unsubtle resemblan.
