Encho Pironkov's Paintings Permanent Exhibition

The exposition contains 45 works donated by the artist, presenting the best of his artistic development. 

Encho Pironkov (born 1932) belongs to the generation of artists who, in the 60s of the 20th century, moderized not only the appearance of the Plovdivv painting school, but Bulgarian fine art as well. After the totalitarian culture, the created and developed a new kind of modern plastic way of thinking, which affiliated them to the European art processes and laid the foundations of Bulgarian modernism through a new approach to shape and colour.

Encho Pironkov’s style is distinguished by a strong expressive gesture, a sense of spontaneity and naturalness. He breaks space into fragments, filling it with figures in ritual postures. The specific mystical messages and the typical strong contrast between light and dark in his compositions make the communication with them even more dramatic. Light flows from the shapes not as a lighting effect, but rather as a structure and behaviour-determining factor. The dark unleashes imagination; it is a special personal revelation, a mystery that should be kept secret.

Encho Pironkov was born on 9 November 1932, in the village of Rozovets near Plovdiv. He graduated from high school in Plovdiv, where he developed and gained recognition for his clearly distinguishable expressive style, thus becoming one of them most famous Bulgarian artists.