Tsvetomir Assenov

Parallel worlds
In his contemporary life as an artist, Tsvetomir Assenov has walked through a substantial period of thoughts and rethinking, searching and experimenting /but not wandering/.
The principle of his painting is defined in his work "Parallel worlds", which can be considered a programmatic piece of work. The theme of "Parallel worlds" is the merging into and coming out of one mass of material objects, of faces and fragments from figures. This is seething aggregation, in which the object and the figure merge into one another and each of them is orginating from each other. This combination is full of anxienty, the faces and figures are forced out of the infested objectivity with difficulty. They represent an exquisitely well composed and constructed ensemble, the basic principle of which is distortion. Distortion or deformation is more often considered to be a bad painting in Bulgaria. Assenov's distortion bares a lot of lyrics in it. Assenov is far from the deformation with expressionist character.
"Wommen on the balcony" and "Haute couture" are created on the basis of the same principle. As in "Parallel worlds" here the swarming of objects and figures is also dominant despite their linear origin. Assenov is working in imaginery worlds which are parallel to ours but in no way identical. If Assenov and Bujukliiski represent the begining of a new Bulgarian methaphysical school which is nevertheless similar to the Italian one of Carra and Modigliani,still Buyukliiski represents the principle of solitude while Assenov's principle is the one of the vigorous life in the objects. Life joints together fragments of figures and bizarre objects. They have one thing in common? existence!They are! And this comes like a triumph of creativityand more precisely a triumph of creation.
Vladimir Svintila
Democratzia newspaper issue 259