The International Plein Air Painting “Bosilegrad in Colour” was launched with an official ceremony on the 15th of July. The event is organized for the fourth consecutive year and will last until the 20th of July. The Bulgarian Consul in Nis, Petar Danov, arrived in Bosilegrad especially for the opening ceremony.
This year, 13 artists are participating in the plein-air, and the organizers from “GLASS” Association, Bosilegrad and “St. Kliment Ohridski” 1997 Students Community Center, Sofia have planned to visit villages as well as cultural and natural sites in the Municipality of Bosilegrad. On the first day of the workshop, the participants toured the village of Izvor and visited the Holy Trinity Church and the first Catholic school in the region of Bosilegrad.
The artists participating in the plein air workshop included Bisser Lapev, Evgeni Serafimov, Laura Dimitrova, Pirin Makedonski, Stefan Altakov and Juliana Mihaylova from Bulgaria; Vangel Krstinovski and Filip Joveski from the Republic of North Macedonia; as well as Danica Veselinovic, Ivana Knezevic, Anka Stevanovic and Ljubisa Penev from Serbia.
On Saturday, the 20th of July, the Plein Air Workshop was officially closed with an exhibition of the paintings painted during the creative week.
16.07.2024 10:31 (BTA) The International Plein Air Painting “Bosilegrad in Colour” was opened with an official ceremony and a visit to the village of Izvor https://www.bta.bg/bg/bg-world/708986-mezhdunarodniyat-plener-za-zhivopis-bosilegrad-v-tsvetove-be-otkrit-s-ofitsial
21 July 2024. Glas Press. An exhibition to officially close the fourth edition of the International Bosilegrad in Colour Plein Air. (Video)
