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The Hunting Trophies series consists of 25 gouache and ink works on paper. The dictionary defines hunting as ‘the pursuit of game or the activity of searching for something’. The later can be said of art as well. In my hunting series the hunter and his trophy are always present. The moment when the hunter poses with his trophy is the most intriguing for me. There are two motives here: the moment of success, and the position of dominance. The theme of the position of dominance, its interpretation and the way it is presented runs through the last few years of my artistic practice bridging my abstract paintings with the hunting series.
The process of creating a painting begins in a state of maximum closeness with the event and develops to the state of separation from it. Eventually my aim is to focus on the image and its interpretation as interrelation of abstract forms. At this state the subject is taken out of its everyday context and helps to extract its essence – to see it without the blinding presence of familiarity. The rhythmically spaced cylinders and twisted grids which I use are an attempt to remodel and to interrupt horizontal and vertical plane of the pictorial space. The frontal plane of the cylinders is unpainted plain paper creating an illusion of displaced background. In each separate work I try to add another and different plane - another layer of meaning. And this is something which limits me but at the same time makes me feel free. A step to the next work.

Artist Exhibitions



Selected Exhibitions:

2011 Gallery IME, Sofia, Bulgaria, 40x40
2007 EE Fine Art Gallery, Cambridge, UK, three men show “Abstraction”
2006 Savchevi Art Gallery, Oriahovo, Bulgaria
2005 National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria
“Abstrahirano” /”Reduction to absurdity”/, three men show
2005 Gallery Sredetz, Ministry of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria, “Traveling museum”
2004 National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, India, Contemporary Bulgarian Art
2004 Beijing Jintai Art Museum, Beijing, China, Contemporary Bulgarian Art
2004 Gallery Nessy, Bourgas, Bulgaria, two-men show
2004 Bulgarian Cultural Institutes Galleries in Prague, Czech Republic; Bratislava,
Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary; and Warsaw, Poland, Exhibition “Traveling
museum”
2004 Gallery of Austrian Federal Government, Porcia Palace, Vienna, Austria,
Contemporary Bulgarian Art
2003 National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria, Exhibition of
“Art in Bulgaria” magazine
2002 National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria, “Sound,
vibrations, silence” exhibition, three-men show
2001 National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria, Exhibition “New
Members of Union of Bulgarian Artists”
1997 Gallery Akrabov, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Exhibition, works on paper
1996 House of Culture, Smolian, Bulgaria, three-men show
1994 Gallery Akrabov, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1994 City Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, “Circle”, exhibition of Rovoot group
1994 Gallery Studio-Spectrum, Sofia, Bulgaria, “Bestiary”, exhibition of Rovoot group
1993 City Gallery, Pazrdjik, Bulgaria, Exhibition of Rovoot group


Juried Exhibitions:

2013 Section 13 Annual Exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 Group Exhibition, Savchevi Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 Group Exhibition EE Fine Art Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2007 National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, Awarded artists from “Nationalcompetition for artists and critics”
2004 National Competitive Exhibition organized by St. Cyril and St. Methodius
International Foundation, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6, Sofia,Bulgaria
2004 National exhibition “The Landscape”, National Centre for Contemporary Art
Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria
2004 “Social / Poetic Reality”, gallery of Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria
2003 “10x5x3”, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria
2002 “Bulgarian Painting After 1989” , National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
2001 “Picturesque”, national exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka
6, Sofia, Bulgaria
2000 National Youth Exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6,
Sofia, Bulgaria
1999 “The Picture”, national exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka
6, Sofia, Bulgaria
1998 “New Names”, national exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka
6, Sofia, Bulgaria
1997 Autumn Salon, national exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka
6, Sofia, Bulgaria
1996 Autumn Salon, national exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka
6, Sofia, Bulgaria
1994 Autumn Salon, national exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka
6, Sofia, Bulgaria
1993 “New Names”, national exhibition, National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka
6, Sofia, Bulgaria
Art Fairs and Plein-airs:
2007 Cambridgeshire Art Fair, Linton, UK. Presented by EE Fine Art Gallery
2006 National Centre for Contemporary Art Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria, Exhibition from
the symposiums and plain-airs of the Union of Bulgarian artists
2006 Gallery Sredetz, Ministry of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria, Selected works from the
plain-airs in Oriahovo
2005 Savchevi Art Gallery, Oriahovo, Bulgaria
2004 Sozopol, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sozopol, Bulgaria
2004 Savchevi Art Gallery, Oriahovo, Bulgaria
2003 Gallery of Novi Pazar, Serbia and Monte Negro
2002 Sozopol, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sozopol, Bulgaria
Selected Awards:
2004 3d Prize, National exhibition-contest of St. Cyril and St. Methodius International
Foundation, UBA, Gallery Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria
2000 Union of Bulgarian Artists The Annie Tringova Prize, National youth exhibition,
Gallery Shipka 6, Sofia; Bulgaria,

Membership:

Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artist (UBA) since 2001...

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