The Catalogue (PDF)

ARTISTS BY COUNTRIES The exhibition is held With Special Thanks December 15 2017 March 25 2018 for the cooperation to: Australia – 1 Austria – 2 Lessedra Gallery JAPAN ARTISTS ASSOCIATION Belgium – 3 25, Milin Kamak Street, Lozenetz Brazil – 18 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria ARCHIVO GRAFICO, Mexico Bulgaria – 16 ACTION FOR ARTISTIC CREATIVITY Canada – 4 The project is presented Mauritius Denmark – 2 on the web England – 3 www.lessedra.com link COMPETITION Estonia – 2 Finland – 3 France – 10 8TH LESSEDRA Germany – 9 INTERNATIONAL Greece – 2 PAINTING & MIXED MEDIA Hungary – 1 COMPETITION Publisher: LESSEDRA Gallery Iceland – 3 & Contemporary Art Projects Iraq – 1 The Catalogue presents Israel – 4 25, Milin Kamak Street, Lozenetz Italy – 1 181 Artists 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria Japan – 13 Tel.: (++359 2) 865 04 28, from (++359 2) 866 38 57 Kosovo – 1 e-mail: [email protected] Lithuania – 1 38 countries [email protected] Mauritius – 5 Mexico – 12 The Netherlands – 8 Concept for the book: Georgi Kolev©2018 Northern Ireland – 1 Pre - press: Christophor Krustev©2018 Norway – 5 Poland – 8 Switzerland – 4 Print: Stovi©2018 Portugal – 1 Taiwan – 1 Russia – 2 Thailand – 2 Slovenia – 3 Togo – 1 South Africa – 1 Turkey – 5 Sweden – 4 U. S. A. – 18 © Lessedra 2017 – 2018 INTERNATIONAL JURY ROSANGELA SCHEITHAUER Brazilian artist, residing in Vienna KRASSIMIRA DRENSKA, Bulgaria Artist and Art teacher ENIL ENCHEV Founder and Director of (a) cube gallery, Sofia 2 PRIZES Rosangela Scheithauer completing her list of selected artists for prizes ELMAR PEINTNER, Austria FIRST PRIZE Night, Jaguar and Mask, 2017, Pencil and Egg Tempera, 15x15 cm BARBARA NISCIOR, Poland MARY FARRELL, U. S. A. SECOND PRIZE Mirror of the Time, 2017, Mixed Media, 8x10 cm Zone 1, 2017, Woodcut, Monotype, Cut Work, 15x15 cm ELISABETH JOBIN – SANGLARD, Switzerland PRIZES THIRD PRIZE 3 SWEET, 2017, Paper pulps added with acrylic green pigment, green nail polish, and white corrective pen, 15x15 cm TADAYUKI FUJIGAYA, Japan YOSSEF SHEMESH, Israel In Honor of the Cave` s Painters III, 2017, Japanese Woman, 2017, Acrylic on Aluminum, 15x15 cm Watercolor on Handmade Paper, 15x15 cm Krassimira Drenska judging the works 4 JURY & PRIZES Krassimira Drenska and Rosangela Scheithauer during the judging Rosangela Scheithauer presenting Brazilian artists JURY & PRIZES 5 Rosangela Scheithauer with Enil Enchev FEATURED ARTIST PAVEL KOYCHEV, Bulgaria 1987 he received a prize in the name of Marko Markov. 1999 Participates in the exhibition “World Millennium Artists” at the UN Headquarters in New York. 2002 he presents Bulgaria at the International Bien- nale in Venice, together with two other Bulgarian artists. 2012 he presents Bulgaria again at the International Biennale in Venice, along with two other Bulgarian artists. His works are owned by the National Gallery (Sofia), the Sofia City Gallery, galleries in the country and 6 private collections and exhibitions in Belgium, Aus- Pavel Koychev - Featured Artist tria, Denmark, USA and others. Art projects: Pavel Koychev is a Bulgarian sculptor 1995 “Torren beetle” - exposed by NPC plastics, wo- ven as willow beehives and plastered with mud. Born May 30, 1939 in Sofia 1997 “Dolly or something about cloning” - Plastics of straw and plywood on a slope in the forest near the In 1966 graduated Sculpture at the National Art Acad- village of Osikovitsa, Sofia. emy “Nikolay Pavlovich” in Sofia. 2000 “Oblistishte” at “Knyaz Al. Batenberg” in Sofia 1966-1971 he works at the publishing house “Photo and in front of Notre Dame de la Chapelle in Brus- SPECIAL PRESENTATION SPECIAL Exhibition” as an artist and a designer of festive and sels - made of wood, wooden sticks and more. plas- greeting cards. tic materials similar to a dwelling. Since 1971 Koychev is a freelance artist. 2005 “The Houses, the Summer, the Sea” - in the 1982 First Solo Exhibition. gallery of “CiBank”, Sofia Since 1984 participation in all major national exhibi- 2006 “Onyx Sculptures” - human figures made of tions, as well in exhibitions abroad. onyx, illuminated inside, exhibited in the National Art In the same year he received the award in the name Gallery. of Ivan Lazarov. 2006 “High Walk” - 4-5 meters high figures of light SPECIAL PRESENTATION SPECIAL materials and cloth exhibited at the Rayko Aleksiev figures at the American University in Blagoevgrad. Gallery in Sofia. The sculptures were placed for the first time in 1989 2007 “The Carrier” - figures of 4 donkeys of different on the station’s square in the town but afterwards material exhibited in the gallery of CIBank they were removed and for a few years they were 2007, “Construction” - a plastic house built near the exhibited at the Foreign Art Gallery in Sofia (now 7 village of Osikovitsa, 68 km from the Hemus highway, “Square 500”), then returned to Blagoevgrad. where later an open-air gallery with original models 2014 Sculpture-Lighthouse at the port of Tsarevo - of sculptures is located. 5.5-meter bronze female figure, by model of ancient 2009 “Vodna pasha” - Sculpture group of human fig- Thracian sculpture. ure and sheep, located in the middle of a small lake 2016 The “Originals” Park Gallery - over 50 of its near the village of Osikovitsa. Plastics were refur- sculptural models, made 1967-2014, are exhibited as bished with more resistant materials and re-located a permanent exposition in a private estate near the there permanently in 2016. village of Osikovitsa, 68 km from the Hemus highway. 2009 “The Table”, Dossev Art Gallery, Rayko Alexiev Sculptures are original models from which bronze Exhibition Hall casting molds are made. All are white in color, coat- Monumental Sculptures: ed with resin, to be resistant to the outside. Some of 1988 Sculpture in front of the ritual house of Krasno them are cast from bronze and are located in parks Selo, Sofia and galleries in Sofia, Brussels, Blagoevgrad, Sozo- 2000 Sculpture in front of the building of the Ameri- pol and others, some have remained only as models can Embassy in Sofia. and projects. 2008 Sculpture group “Movement” by several bronze PAVEL KOYCHEV AND ETERNITY MITKO NOVKOV The figures are huge – and beautiful. Men are in suits, scarves, felted hats – they are real dandies. The women are in dresses, and even more ethereal hats; some are wearing gloves, and on their shoes, ribbon bows. The effect is irresistible, as if you are watching a fashion show or review, but one of the most exclusive which not everyone can enter. The glamour of fashion, the brilliance of the moment, the fifteen minutes of glory; or the first night of fury and Pavel Koychev in front of his presentation folly in the whirlwind of a prom ball that is only for the tal Light exhibition suggests. The theme is neither young. With everyone else gone, they carry on joy- social nor anti-élitist, it is temporal and ethereal. 8 fully with frivolous vitality until dawn. Haughty Walk comes after Onyx Sculptures, and that’s important. It’s not just important – it’s the most But in a fashion show or graduation ball, the viewer important thing. Both have to be read together, not is set apart: you stand to the side, maybe cough- separately. Both exist within a continuum, not apart. ing, maybe not. But still, Pavel Koychev gives you the Both overflow into each other, they do not break opportunity to join in, including you in his Haughty apart. Although Haughty Walk can be read in terms Walk, faithfully at his foot, small but true, hardly of decomposition, as the decay of our times, it is not there, diminutive. But you are there amongst the gi- a question that mutant giants will never be able to ants, amongst the élite, amongst the lofty hosts and fly again. What is sadder is that even in their dream- taller guests. ing, they will not want to. They are self-satisfied with SPECIAL PRESENTATION SPECIAL their Styrofoam bodies and clothes and their smug They are indifferent – soulless – they do not even self-confidence. They turn to faint, stupidly happy in notice you. They turn within their own circle – high, their circular walk, beautiful and complacent in the high, high-minded. Haughty Walk. voluntary prison of their closed and well-protected VIP world. This is the most fleeting, the quickest encounter. Al- though huge and spread out, the scope is restrained What matters is the transition, the transfer of this mo- with no sense of a ready-to-wear vanity, as the Capi- ment of self-sufficient complacency – circulum vitae, the Tree of Life at its highest point, where it starts ter. The form lasts, the matter not so. Matter disap- to descend. This is the meaning of Haughty Walk, pears, melts, rots: after Haughty Walk, the Styrofoam the transfer, the transition. The Sec. The glory, but from which the huge figures are made will be used also Sic transit gloria mundi is shown. The triumph for other shapes. The shape of the form is no longer has been depicted, but also the Cave ne cada (Be needed. It has happened, it is left over as ballast careful not to fall). It is youth, but also the Memento which has to be thrown out. Or turned into another more. form. Reformatted.” Pavel Koychev - Plato of Art… I asked Pavel Koychev whether he deliberately exhib- Let me return (using the text of Georgi Lozanov PRESENTATION SPECIAL ited his huge figures in the frenzy of graduation balls about Koychev on the basis of form) to support my with the latest models of cars, brands of clothes, the claim about the ethereal, transient creativity of Pavel latest hairstyles and fashions, when all is external Koychev. Coprine are enormous baskets of mud and and superficial, and nothing else. No mind or reason.

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