Imagine entering a small hall painted in white. In the middle of the room, there is a sandy rectangle with a plaster human leg-like element erected vertically. On the right-hand wall, a large-scale canvas is hung consisting of the same element painted against a bright red background. On the left-hand wall, there is a similar canvas but the same element appears four times. A smaller hall at the back is filled with another bright red canvas, a sandy rectangle on the floor, and the same plaster vertical element.

This is the composition which Alexander Vulchev named Static and arranged at the Tea Gallery (10 Dimitar Hadjikotsev Street) last Thursday. The current exhibit runs until November 11 and is the first part of the two-cycle project titled Selection: Static-Dynamic. The second part, Dynamic, will be on display at the gallery from November 12-20. It will again consist of a combination of two sculptures and two paintings on the same theme, using the same motif situated in different ways. This time the common motif will be two legs and two arms.

This is the first solo exhibition of the 28-year-old sculptor. "It is about the things which we show and hide as well as the things which others want to see and those which they ignore," Vulchev said, noting that the exhibition is four variations of the same work, with the idea being that they have the effect of a whole and not separate items. "This is actually one work which occupies the whole space."

The titles of the two parts of the exhibition, Static and Dynamic, came from the particular characteristics of the works. "In Static, (the motif) is the vertical element - repeated many times in the sculptures and paintings and saturating space with calmness and harmony," said art critic Stefania Yanakieva. "In the second part, the dynamic forms in space introduce tension and give a completely different perspective of the whole."

Vulchev said that he decided to divide the exhibition into two parts, on the one hand, for practical reasons - the ideas were more than the space available. On the other hand, it also acts to make the exhibit more clear. According to him, the use of aggressive, contrasting colours - bright red and blue - does not oppose the main idea of his Static exhibition. The same bright colours appear in the works from the second part as well.

Vulchev confessed he was not an aggressive person himself, but he released his hidden and suppressed aggression through the use of aggressive colours in art.

The young artist explained that he liked to experiment and create new things. "The face and torso are the parts of the human body which are most commonly used in sculpture. However, it turned out that a portrait can be created using limbs only."

He sees his current exhibition as a step towards a different type of art. "I was making non-figurative works before, mainly colour geometric plates. My current exhibition is a kind of a transition towards purely figurative art."

The official opening of Dynamic is at 6pm on Monday.