Milcho Talev's plasticity world is strewn with metaphorical dreaming, free gliding in the spaces of mythological allusions and reminiscences. The artist possesses the rare skill of building images even with the play of colour scales.

We shall find in his works Crown or Evening Anticipation, Village or Winter Game, Mirror, Fan not only high levels of concentration and construction of abstract plasticity compositions, but also, with an unbounded imagination, we shall see the contours of realistic fragments and details. One can say that Milcho Talev is setting free his artistic intuition to roam undisturbed in the depths of the subconscious where the bizarre and the everyday explosions are born. On the other hand, he is trying hard to notice man and the compassionate element of the landscape. Even in an abstract (at first sight) object, such as A Wall, he discovers and figuratively puts emphasis on humanistic facets - body, torso, limbs, profile, etc.

In his most recent works, Milcho Talev models figures of humans and animals (he likes to paint birds and dogs just because he finds human traits in them). He is interested in the internal messages, the invisible essence of a person or state. It is as if the artist considers dreaming, the border between dreaming and being awake, some specific key to the solution of the secret of man.

Milcho Talev wishes to understand individuality as a concentration of natural and universal harmonies and also as a ball of inner contradictions. That is why many paintings resemble explosive lyrical and colour eruptions. The viewer feels the movement across chromatic caves where even darkness is shining, the floating along bright red, yellow or blue rivers, the returning backwards to childhood; the viewer dreams of pastoral landscapes of innocence and compassion in order to find the eventual macrocosm of the universe and to reach to the thought of Protagorus that man is the measure of all things. At first glance, we might think that the artist is looking for the fantastic play of colour. But a closer look reveals the substantial bases of the concrete colour hue. Thus, bright fireworks are invariably loaded with a definite semantic function.

Milcho Talev is a modern Bulgarian artist who holds a powerful organic talent and free fantasy; he is not tempted by pseudo-modernistic impulses, like many others who have decided to reject tradition.

Milcho Talev knows that the really modern approach is to reconstruct tradition. So, he is modern without being pretentious.