
SCULPTURES FROM THE DEPOT LOOK AT THE NEW ACQUISITIONS
3.12.2024 – 12.01.2025
Opening: 3 December 2024, 6 pm
I go down to the gallery depot. I meet the ghosts of people I used to know, and I’m reminded of their smells, beards, blemishes, teeth, wool sweaters, and velvet pants. With their cigarette smoke and turpentine, and dirty jokes. Despite the demands of everyday life, they try to concentrate and extract poetry from themselves. They come alive with their works, which we now step over, in this sick building.
As we began removing the paintings from the shelves, the sculptures seemed to gaze at us with a sense of wonder. They just stood there in the dark, watching us. Then we took the paintings upstairs, and we left the sculptures in the dark.
We thought it was only fair to take them up so they could check out the new acquisitions at the Ruse Art Gallery´s collection, just as they keep an eye on everything that goes on at the depot. That’s how the exhibition came about
SCULPTURES FROM THE DEPOT LOOK AT THE NEW ACQUISITIONS.
Come and see them too, they are ours, yours, common!
Eslitsa Popova
*The exhibition features a selection of works from the museum’s collection over the past four years, along with sculptures from the era of the gallery’s founding to the present day.