The art of Svilen Stefanov is, I believe, deliberately charged with a certain "duality" and has both literal and symbolic meaning. As a culturally "burdened" artist, the author respects some traditional conventions of the pictorial media...
Over the last decade of the 20th century Svilen Stefanov has been one of the most influential figures in the art of Bulgaria, which at that particular moment was looking for its new image in the contemporary art world...