Gancho Ganchev - Infrared and prehistoric

Gancho Ganchev’s paintings combine pop art aesthetics with documentary fragments—everyday scenes, abstract patterns, and colorful glitches. His images suggest the contradictions of industrial dreams as they clash with the environment.
In “Last Drop,” we see tubes, funnels, cans, and drops—containers and devices for dispensing and storing petroleum products in everyday life, which themselves serve as portraits of their main source. We have normalized the perceived danger into an acceptable notion of consumer satisfaction.
Built on the principle of an image within an image, a detail within a context, Gancho Ganchev’s compositions employ clear visual codes of familiar symbolism and allude to broader economic interdependencies. The oil industry and the geopolitical mechanisms surrounding the extraction and distribution of natural resources constitute the thematic focus of his latest series of paintings. It is a matter that deeply concerns him and is evident beneath his bright colors.
While the exhibition space immerses us in the raw materiality of industrial architecture, Todor Hubchev’s soundscapes capture the acoustic environment of crude oil extraction and production processes. Industrial romance—we inhabit this familiar environment daily and comfortably.
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Artist:
Gancho Ganchev – GANA (b. 1990) works in the fields of painting, mural art, and gallery management; he is the founder of the Narrativa Gallery (Veliko Tarnovo). He holds a degree in painting from the University of Veliko Tarnovo (2014). In his painting practice, he combines expressive brushwork with vivid, stylized colors in a pop art style. He has held a number of solo shows and murals in both exterior and interior spaces; he has organized and participated in various graffiti and street art projects, group exhibitions, and festivals; and has been curating the exhibition program at Narrativa Gallery since 2020. / @ganchev.gana / @narrativa.gallery