This evening, the "Prolet" gallery opens an exhibition of the renowned master of stone, Professor Kiril Meskin. The exhibition will be open to visitors until December 12th.

Regarding the work of Kiril Meskin, Svetlin Rusev has shared his admiration, describing him as "one of those strange artists that nature creates as part of itself, who live in it and, through its matter and form, send us messages about its inner life." Rusev continues, emphasizing the depth of the artist's work: "In this seemingly closed creator, alien to worldly vanity and ostentation, there is something of those masters who themselves extracted and transported the stone from distant quarries, themselves processed it, modeled it, and built the wonderful architectural and plastic visions of the folk soul. Time, the elemental natural and fateful disasters, layer upon layer, have accumulated and built those precious stones that the careful hand of the sculptor has cleaned, caressed, and stroked until only the memory of time and the soul of the creator remained."

Born on May 23, 1943, Kiril Meskin graduated in sculpture, trained by professors Vasil Stoilov and Panayot Dimitrov. He is a professor at the Veliko Tarnovo University "St. St. Cyril and Methodius".

Awards

Professor Meskin's work has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards:

  • First prize for sculpture in the *National Awards of Alliance Bulgaria* competition in 2012.
  • First prize for sculpture in the *National Awards of Alliance Bulgaria* competition - Pleven region, in 2008.
  • Grand prize of the first biennial of small forms in the city of Pleven in 2002.
  • National competition for a monument to the fallen in the wars in the city of Gorna Oryahovitsa in 1996.
  • Sculpture award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists in 1994.
  • National competition for a monument to the fallen in the wars in the city of Burgas in 1991.

Projects

Among his completed projects are:

  • *Message*, in the city of Sakuragawa, Japan in 2008.
  • Sculptures *Love* and *Japanese Impression* in the Stone Museum, Iwase region, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
  • The sculpture *Madonna* in the Cathedral in the city of Essen, Germany.
  • The sculpture *Creation* in the Yugo Wuten Sculpture Park, Belgium.
  • Commemorative sign *100 Years of Independent Bulgaria* in the city of Pleven.
  • *Virgin Mary of Fatima*, multi-figure composition in the Catholic Church in the city of Pleven, Bulgaria in 2007.
  • *Message* in Oborishte Park, Sofia, Bulgaria in 2001.
  • *Frieze*, the first architectural ring of the Pleven Epopee Panorama, in the city of Pleven, Bulgaria in 1977.
  • Ossuary monument in the city of Pordim in 1977.
  • *Berachka*, garden sculpture in the city of Pleven in 1972.

Works by Kiril Meskin are located in the National Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Government Residence – Boyana, as well as in private collections in Bulgaria, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Galerie-Bank Sparkasse, Germany; Yugo Wuten Collection, Belgium; Kati and James Pardue Collection, USA; and in the Stone Museum, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.