Fata Morgana Painting

Artworks of Valentin Vitanov can be found in the National Gallery Bulgaria, as well as in various museums, municipal galleries, public buildings and private collections in Bulgaria, Germany, France, Russia, China, Hungary, Finland, Colombia, Greece, Australasia, Macedonia and so on. Valentin Vitanov was born in 1949 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, in the star sign Sagittarius with Ascendant Virgo. This means that he is always in motion and change, physically and mentally. Always to discover something new, to try new things and continue to search with unsaturated curiosity. His entire work of art is characterized by change and seek again. In Bulgaria he has repeatedly tried to avoid "socialist realism" and, like many other Bulgarian artists, has expressed himself in a kind of "magic realism". There are human figures with elements of surrealism, as well as abstracts in the background, because a purely abstract art was banned in Bulgaria at the time. In his artistic career in Bulgaria, Valentin Vitanov participated in more than 30 National Art Exhibitions, had two personal exhibitions, one of them in the capital Sofia. Two pictures from this exhibition were acquired by the National Gallery Sofia. He was twice the winner of the exhibition "Struma" of South-West Bulgaria. He has also been chairman of the "Young Artists" community in his hometown for the duration of eight years. In 1990 he moved to Germany and since then he has been living as a freelance artist in Fellbach near Stuttgart. When he resettled, Vitanov started to "freely" deal with abstract art. He enjoyed the new freedom very much and let off steam in abstract painting. His works have reached dimensions of 2 x 4 meters in size. Then he also realized that the "freedom" is only in the head and no one can give it to him from the outside or take it from there. His credo was “We ourselves set our own limits”. Since then, he has always tried to achieve that inner freedom and to keep this state of mind. In the new home, the artist has quickly gained recognition in his region. He was admitted to the Professional Association of German Artists BBK, through the membership of the Association of Visual Artists Württemberg e.V. Valentin Vitanov is also a member of the “ Württembergischer Kunstverein-Stuttgart”, “Kunstverein Fellbach” and “KV Schorndorf”.