The gray shades of our lives

"Stoyan Kutsev’s paintings are a mainstay of the spirit. They capture the Barcode of our time and reveal the gray texture of our lives. These paintings are fated for spiritual victories, but to survive they require reciprocity - in order to comprehend them one has to hear and see them. Stoyan has a heart-stopping way of encoding through art the most subtle details of being, of stitching together memory and death in an elaborate web of meaning. Stoyan Kutsev works on a painting until it speaks. He does it with a life-saving talent and a soul that’s sharp around the edges. On first impression, his canvases can be startling. Their story reaches you slowly - the dreary story of a life weakened by the death of civilization."

Poet and publisher Bojana Apostolova