As a rule, this artist, as far as I am familiar with his art, concentrates on the formal elements of his compositional approaches, on the brightness of the paint and the dynamic, curving lines. The result, however, is far from what we would call abstraction. Even though, formally speaking, this art cannot be considered to be nature based, the paintings are exactly that – they are full of biomorphic allusions; they bear the characteristics of spatial orientations, typical for traditional genres in visual arts. The pieces give the impression of landscapes or still lifes by virtue of archetypical human notions for light as “up” and darkness as “down”; in other words – the sky and the earth. This hidden presence of nature (with a tinge of fleshliness) has penetrated Marinovski’s art since his years at the Art Academy, and one cannot neglect his achievements in the process of this consistency of his. One of the key works in the exhibition is entitled Scant Light. In order to achieve the completeness and impact of such a delicate approach, the author has surely thought through and worked seriously on his visual and spatial system.

This is an artist who is strongly connected to the development of the art “here”. I mean he is immersed in the memory of the specific visual constructs, typical for the development of art in Bulgaria in the 20th century.  “Recollection” means a search for the past. The past here, maybe not so far back, but at least since Iliya Beshkov. And why not mention exactly Beshkov as a good example for a forerunner, who treated spatial illusions in a peculiar introvert way. Marinovski’s approach is clearly introverted and it is hardly accidental that a previous exhibition of his at the National Art Gallery was entitled Shelters. In a text, accompanying the current show, he says he stays in touch with tradition, with the teachers, from whom he obtains new forms and meanings of the past. He is deliberately retrospective, closed and in search of new “intimate spaces, kept in secret from outsider’s look”; spaces that “wish for pleasure and security”. This as a form of art, which is meant to be hedonistic, materialized in the brush trace, the graphic line and complex coloring. And why not, this is a possible personal authenticity within a closed cultural existence.