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Artist Statement:
Whenever I am in front of my
easel, when I paint, it is my
wish for people to
participate. I want to share
my ideas, my feelings, my own
life, but I would also like
people to bring to the viewing
of my artwork all their varied
and unique life ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2002 Gallerie Lafitte,
New Orleans
2001 Gallerie Lafitte,
New Orleans
2000 Lotos Gallery,
Vienna, Austria
1999 Lotos Gallery,
Vienna, Austria
1998 Vitosha Gallery,
Sofia, Bulgaria
K. Dagopoulu
Gallery, Athens, Greece
1997 HOS Gallery,
Athens, Greece
1996 A. Vasilev Gallery,
Sofia, Bulgaria
1995 Gallery of
Municipality of Rohrbach,
Austria
1994 K. ...
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Collections:
Private Collections:
Vienna, Austria
Sofia, Bulgaria
Belgium
Paris, France
Germany
Athens, Greece
Italy
Atlanta, USA
Las Vegas, USA
New Orleans, USA
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Jordan Ivanov:
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Peter K. Tzanev, Ph.D.
National Art Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria
The paintings of Jordan Ivanov contain bright and impressive figurativeness which successfully balances
between the magnificent, eclectical stylistics of the magic realism and the disciplined canonicity of the
neoacademism.
In Jordan Ivanov's work the desires and fears of the modern person are interpreted allegorically on the
contradictory screen of a reality dynamically saturated with a plenty of mytho-poetical allusions.
A basic reiterating motive in his pictures is the contrasting net of densely interlaced human figures and
anthropomorphous fantastic creatures. A net in which plastically interpreted fragments of a nude human
body unexpectedly occur to be involved in bright vortexes of shade and light.
Jordan Ivanov experiments with the plastic and symbolical potentialities of shade by testing its metaphoric
potential to 'become alive' in demonic figures and creatures. The pictures represent various 'magic'
moments of transformation. The world of shade grows before our eyes by means of multiform and
threatening artistic metamorphoses. Right here Jordan Ivanov expands his creative imagination to the
strongest degree by demonstrating impressive technical skills and professionalism.
To the demonic 'world of shade' containing people's threatening hidden core, Jordan Ivanov, with
balanced lyricism, opposes the vulnerable fragments of a kind of 'antique' human beauty. Without
breaking the integrity of the representational field, these plastically shaped fragments of nude male and
female human figures create an illusion - as if they stand out over the pictures' surfaces like freely floating
three-dimensional fragments.
Jordan Ivanov saturates the pictures' spaces with lots of wavy, colourful fields and parts of concentric,
geometrical figures which additionally increase the delight of the eyes taken in observing and identifying
the elements of the represented reality.
The harmonious atmosphere in Jordan Ivanov's pictures refers to academically mastered stylistics that
searches for the body's safety in the ideals of antiquity. At the same time, this specific picture safety is
dramatically broken by graphic accents and signs coming like alarming signals from a particular modern
environment.
An emblematical element of tension for Jordan Ivanov's paintings is the continuously reiterating symbol of
the spiral playing the part of a power centre and a key to unknown spaces and worlds.
Another continuously repeating motive is the mask. The mask that is an inexhaustible cultural symbol and
a psychological archetype behind which the human and the inhuman, the good and the evil, the harmony
and the chaos lead their endless fight.
The human faces in Jordan Ivanov's paintings are always present in a magic relationship with the
polysemantic symbolics of the mask. Presence which Jordan Ivanov uses in his pictures as an invariable
allegory of the incognizible human nature. Presence which, by means of the inevitable moment of artistic
selfidentification, we should probably interprete also as an original self-portrait of the escaping figure and
of the author himself.
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