We invite you to travel to an Italian village for Boris Taskov's exhibition "Tales of the Cracked Bell" (Italian: "Cunti d'na campæ sciaccada"). The artist will use photographs to introduce visitors to Novara di Sicilia, the most beautiful stone village in Sicily, hidden in the Piluritani and Nebrodi mountains.
The selected photographs, which reflect a lonely life in Sicily, are illustrated with poems, with the artist's aim to tell stories and to spark the imagination. You might even hear a song in the church of cracked bells that rises above the tiled roofs of the houses and looks down on the envious sea...
Boris Taskov was born in Bulgaria on 8 January 1976. He studied film directing at the Technical University of Sofia, then film directing at the University of Theatre and Cinematic Arts in Budapest, and since then has worked as an assistant director in the film industry. Since 30 October 2017, he has been a member of the Lithuanian Union of Photographers.
He has had a number of solo exhibitions, including "As if on Sundays" (2013) and "In Out and Around" (2020).) at the Vilnius Photography Gallery, "Vilnius SolEtudés" at the Liudvikas Reza Cultural Centre in Juodkrante (2014), "Kampung Jerai" at the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO (2018) and "Como aos domingos" in São Paulo, Brazil (2018). He has also participated in group exhibitions, such as "Mano Kiemas" at Kaunas Photography Gallery in 2015.
