"Taming the Sea" painting exhibition by Ognyan Georgiev

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ART MARCONI GALLERY Honoured with the „Varna“ Award 2022. Presents ON THE EUROPEAN NIGHT OF MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES / 2026 21.05 – 10.06. 2026 „TAMING THE SEA“ Painting exhibition by OGNYAN GEORGIEV 18.30 on 21.05 /Thursday/ 2026 Varna, 22 Ohrid St., Art Marconi Gallery Ognyan Georgiev has known the sea since childhood. He accompanied his father when he went out in his fishing boat. He has always felt like part of the rhythm of the sea. Although not professionally connected with the sea, Ognyan Georgiev continues to feel its pulse and never fails to synchronize his own pulse with it. He does not perceive it merely as an object of contemplation. The sea is an element with which he manages to find a language of communication. Descending the crests of the waves with his kayak, he overcomes not only the surge of the wind, but his own ordinary fears, the anger born of the human mistakes and shortcomings he encounters daily, the helplessness not in the face of the forces of nature, but in the face of greed, indifference, neglect. In the water he feels part of another world, where problems are solved with experience, sound judgment and confidence in one's own abilities. There is no falseness there, amateurs cannot survive, connections and patronage stand no chance. The water element is a challenge, freedom and responsibility. You must be ready to immerse yourself and become part of it. Rather, it is the sea that tames the artist, because it has become a part of him, of his way of existence, of his personal philosophy and morality, as a means of communicating with friends through his art... Nothing is able to break his connection with the sea and his striving to keep trying, to tame it in his paintings. He chooses places that people can rarely reach - the deserted beaches near Karadere, which he reaches with his personal kayak, or the steep shores of Kamen Bryag. Ever-changing, restless, capricious, fearsome or gentle and generous, the Black Sea has a thousand faces that Ognyan Georgiev will pursue throughout his creative life. Each of his exhibitions is a declaration of love for nature. Vanya Markova – Art Marconi Gallery