EXHIBITIONS
2020 “MADE IN ЛЕЩЕН“, Little bird place. Group exhibition
2020 “Dualism“,ONE Gallery, group exhibition
2020 "(YOU)(BE)Like me" Arosita Gallery, Sofia
2020 "The Past. Method of use", Nuance Art Gallery, Sofia
2019 "HOMOSOC", PORT A , documentary exhibition, Sofia
2019 "FORMS" AETHER, group exhibition, part of Sofia Pride Events, Sofia
2019 "Art Start" Goethe Institut, group exhibition, Sofia
2018 "EXISTENCE MINIMUM", REPUBLICA , solo exhibition, Sofia
2017 "Open studio", Cite International Des Arts, Paris
2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague
2014 Via Pontica- International Youth Arts Festival, Balchik
2013 SOHO (Sofia Holistic Coworking Company), first solo exhibition, Sofia
EXHIBITIONS
2020 “MADE IN ЛЕЩЕН“, Little bird place. Group exhibition
2020 “Dualism“,ONE Gallery, group exhibition
2020 "(YOU)(BE)Like me" Arosita Gallery, Sofia
2020 "The Past. Method of use", Nuance Art Gallery, Sofia
2019 "HOMOSOC", PORT A , documentary exhibition, Sofia
2019 "FORMS" AETHER, group exhibition, part of Sofia Pride Events, Sofia
2019 "Art Start" Goethe Institut, group exhibition, Sofia
2018 "EXISTENCE MINIMUM", REPUBLICA , solo exhibition, Sofia
2017 "Open studio", Cite International Des Arts, Paris
2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague
2014 Via Pontica- International Youth Arts Festival, Balchik
2013 SOHO (Sofia Holistic Coworking Company), first solo exhibition, Sofia
A project by Iskra Blagoeva
A project by Iskra Blagoeva
Rumen Georgiev - photography
Rumen Georgiev - photography
Rumen Georgiev - photography

Crazy is the new RED 01 22x22x30cm, Object, Toys, Plexiglass, sticker, rubber paint, 2017

16x16x24cm, Object, 2017

65x85x12cm, wall object, 2017

Crazy is the new RED 01 22x22x30cm, Object, Toys, Plexiglass, sticker, rubber paint, 2017
Yonko’s Room is unlocked
2018 „Yonko’s Ark” – One Monev Gallery, Sofia
LEADING SERIES
IT WAS THE COLOR IN THE BEGINNING
We live in a kaleidoscopic world in which the influence of color is important for our perceptions, our communication, emotions and relationships. The history of color is linked not only with various aspects of our life, but with the evolution of mankind. The theme has been thoroughly examined by a number of scientists and one of the most remarkable thesis in the field is the one by Michel Pastoureau, the only person who has dared to write the “The History of Color” up to the moment.
EVERYTHING STARTS WITH BLUE
If the history of color starts with the red, the one of “Yonko’s Ark” begins with blue. Why? Because this is the color of true evolution! In Ancient Greece and Rome they couldn’t name it, but nowadays it is the favourite color of most mankind.
Sailing to the beaches of Venice as Azure Blue from the mines of Afghanistan, it makes everything visible and untouchable: the sky is blue, but can you reach it? No! Thus in the epoch of surrealism the blue was the color of our dreams, respectively of our reveries. One of the biggest aspirations of ours is bound up with the first sighting of the Earth from Space. Was Armstrong or Gagarin the first to see “the blue planet”? This is not a matter of discussion here, but it is a fact that in our surrounding world everything valuable is blue. And that is the basic reason to call one of the series ’ Azeruis Rising’. It stamps the innermost childish memories, objects and emotions of the author as well as his fears. Like every other color azure blue has its own demonic sides, too.
As I mentioned above, the red color comes first and is the one which man masters generally speaking. Red is the most ambivalent, though. It is the most natural, the most predictable and its ambivalence is connected with the association of it with joy and pleasure, by which it leads us straight to hell and the flames of Inferno.
Who hasn’t heard as a child about the “Red Hoody”? Yonko is not the first who asked himself why it is exactly red. It could be pink or green. There are reasons for the children from Yonko’s generation to have this inspiration. This color accompanies you a lot, because you are noticed, but it is crazy to cross the woods with a red hat on. It is dangerous and you are not in a camouflage. Literally the name ‘red’ means beautiful and that’s why most of the objects of Yonko’s Ark are filled with irony and carelessness about the subject of “beauty”. At most they are intertwined with madness and in opposition to the statement “Art is good only if it is beautiful.”
YONKO'S ARK
“And there you are! God demanded that Noah do something strange. He told him to build a vast coffin. This coffin was as big as a ship, but most of all it looked like an enormous, elongated chest.” No, this is not the story of “Yonko’s Ark” and the only point of tangency between Noah’s coffin and Yonko’s chest is in the fact that both objects have been conceived as safe-keeping boxes. In the concrete example with Yonko, the case in point is the legacy of the artist, what drives him to keep living.
The color blue continues having a master role pledged in the first part of the project, but there are some “funny accents” in it which accompanied the author since his childhood till the collision with the local art scene.
It is about art works such as “Chocolate Dreams”. Plastic represents the chocolate head of Georgi Dimitrov as a dessert - an ironic analogy with the sweet gossip of a whole era in which everything melted away like chocolate after the falling of the old regime.
Other works like that are the those from the “Smart is the New Sexy” series. The first one is with a subheading: Curator’s Talk: Timova & Artelina.
The second one is entitled ” Pink Freud”, in which the message is direct and apparent.
Yonko’s Ark is a treasure-house of the human path. Life in which upgrading knowledge, heritage, emotion and creativity not only build the artist’s position but also are part of his legacy for those who dream about an artistic career. And it is simple: “In order to be good at art, the most important thing is to be authentic and true to what provokes you to create!”.