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Theodor Flemming asserted at an exhibition of Contemporary Bulgarian Art in Hamburg at that time that Anastas' paintings were "apocalyptic" and that they took place "in surreal areas, in which people and animals appear in sinister alienation and decay, thus setting various iconographic riddles."
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for displaying subversive paintings. He continued to fight communism and to portray the dark reality of the time. Despite threats from the authorities, he responded to his exhibition being shut down by painting the series, "The Red Pigs," which was laden with even greater themes of discontent. Prof.
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remarked that those paintings were "violent, nihilistic, ominous, even grotesque." In 1986, one of
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in July 2014. This exhibition marked the first time in 25 years the artist presented at a major solo exhibition in
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and was "blown away" and "deeply moved" by his work. Mr. Celli urged
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