Slav Nedev

About Slav Nedev

1967 Born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Works and lives in Sofia. Since 2012 Founder & President of Biotope Assn.; Since 2011 Consultant at Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art; Since 2001 Member of Union of the Bulgarian Artists; Since 1989 Freelance artist. ARTIST STATEMENT To me a work of (visual) art is a kind of dream, a medium, which in its silent vagueness conveys what sometimes clear conceptual thinking cannot communicate and is otherwise inexpressible. Paradoxically the most important think in a visual work of art – its spirit – is actually invisible and impossible to put in words, yet we could perceive it instantly if it’s there. I always need to get involved emotionally and mentally with a subject in order to start exploring it through the means of art. Usually such involvement results in a series of works that often evolve through the years. However the things I am interested mostly in are the idea, the principle, the type, and the relationships, most of all the relationship between man and his surroundings, hence my focus on architecture and other urban phenomena and processes as well as on topography that kind of documents the interaction between man and nature. The subject of these explorations could be summed up in the questions: Where are we? How do we interact with our surroundings? What is/will be (the possible) the result of this interaction?