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The National Endowment Fund "13 Centuries of Bulgaria" made a big gesture to the municipality of Velingrad. On December 2, the Fund's CEO Kin Stoyanov personally announced that the Management Board had decided to make a donation to our municipality. The Municipality of Velingrad also made a "big" gesture to the NDF "13 Centuries of Bulgaria" - there was not a single official representative of the municipality to receive the donation in the Municipal Art Gallery. This forced Mr. Stoyanov to regret that he had no one to communicate the good news to and to express hope that soon there would be an honorable mayor elected to hand over the donation to him.
The embarrassing situation for Velingrad was played out at the opening of an exhibition of painting by the artist Dimitar Batoev - a cultural event that certainly deserved more audience and better organization. Vice President Angel Marin was invited to open the exhibition. He did not come, but the task was brilliantly handled by Kin Stoyanov and art historian Bisera Yosifova, who recently parted ways with the post of Deputy Minister of Culture and was presented by Mr. Stoyanov as a "bit minister". Kin Stoyanov explained that on the occasion of 20 years since the establishment of the National Donor Fund, an extended program for the celebration was adopted and the first event was the exhibition in Velingrad. Here is the first stop of 21 paintings by Dimitar Batoev, donated by him in the 1970s, when as a non-returnee he was an immigrant in Florida. According to Kin Stoyanov, this exhibition "the return of the wretch". After in 2001 The most titled Bulgarian non-returnee has returned to Bulgaria, it is time to think about all those who, whether they want to or not, we have banished from the homeland. We are declining as people, we have to gather all who feel born on our lands, to gather our spiritual aura, Mr. Stoyanov said.
Mrs. Yosifova told the little known about the artist: he was born in 1920, but no one knows where; he died in 1991, but also no one knows where. He was a student at Sofia University and at the Art Academy, where he studied with two giants - painting with Prof. Dechko Uzunov and sculpture under prof. Ivan Lazarov. For unexplored reasons, he was declared a non-returnee by the socialist government and emigrated to the United States. In the 1970s he created the paintings exhibited in Velingrad with one nostalgic note to the "Fatherland kindly". They came to Bulgaria after, because of the celebration of 1300 years of Bulgaria, Lyudmila Zhivkova appealed for donations to the Bulgarian emigration. In this hall we are doing the rehabilitation of Dimitar Batoev before the society, we are rediscovering an outstanding artist, said Mrs. Yosifova.
The exhibition will remain in the Art Gallery until March 3 and deserves to be seen and experienced. Then, in the same hall, the fund will make an exhibition of books published with its support, which will subsequently be donated to libraries in Velingrad.
Elena Baeva