Dostena Lavergne

Poet, writer, art critic and university lecturer in the anthropology of contemporary art, Dostena is an authentic and profound painter with solo exhibitions in France, Greece and Bulgaria.

As literary critic and translator Holly Karapetkov writes, the painterly overlay of images is a source of constant wonder and surprise in Dostena's texts where her artist's eye is always present. Her poems are imbued with the imagery of the artist, and her paintings are an expression of her poetic and vividly sensuous perception of the world." Bernard Remaux, French collector, publisher and president of the Alsace Academy of Arts and Letters, says of her in his opening address to Dostena's   solo exhibition in 2022 at the Council of Europe "Dostena is a unique phenomenon in art! Her paintings impress at first sight with the Mediterranean light and ethereality embedded in the canvases. Bright sensibility and subtle colour combined with multi-layered symbolism and philosophical radiance.
This original synthesis is something few contemporary artists have impressed me with. "

"The flickering pictorial language of these paintings captivates with the feeling that light springs from within, through the colours themselves.... Elegant and wise paintings!", art critic Prof. Dr. Galya Lardeva