Galerie Fenna Wehlau - Nikola DIMITROV

As a painter and pianist, I am interested in the interplay between music and painting. The concern of my work is to make music visible with a pictorial language. The starting point for finding my own visual language was the collaboration with the German composer Gerhard Stäbler.

The color lines and grid patterns that spontaneously emerged to his music in the painting process served as the later inspiration for the developing characteristic design features of the works: Recurring rows of strokes, horizontal, vertical and diagonal superimpositions that give rise to diverse structures and patterns.

These give the paintings an inner order in which melodies, rhythms, measures, pauses, syncopations and polyphony resonate. In the black-and-white-grey works, the preference for rhythmic events on the picture ground is particularly evident. The works with colored ruler layers, on the other hand, emphasize gesture, sound, and emotionality.

The paintings resonate not only with familiar compositions, but also with their own sounds and melodies. In this respect, the works are to be seen as an interplay of musical and painterly inspiration.