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Alexander Todorov

Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France

I was born 9 years before the fall of the Berlin wall. I discovered the industrial revolution under ...

About the artist

Alexander Todorov

Joined In 2016

(31 Followers)

About the artist

Alexander Todorov

Joined In 2016

(31 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS

I was born 9 years before the fall of the Berlin wall. I discovered the industrial revolution under the red star. I grew up under the fixing gazes of the communist party secretaries. The world beyond the wall was a dream, a consumer society which one could imagine by looking at the Neckermann catalogues.
Linocuts were used for political propaganda, this is why I chose the high-relief technique – linocuts, woodcuts. I am interested in the absorption capabilities of black, in the creation of signs, of symbols. I am actively looking to perceive the invisible and to sink into shadows.
Significant sign, meaningful symbol, limited visible images which expose a feminine body – a window mannequin, rejected, used, vain, useless, in the middle of abandoned industrial buildings resembling empty exoskeletons. A past life spent waiting, hoping that the New Man will finally come to being, illusions and devious wanderings, detached from reality, absorbed by a curious dementia that metamorphosis itself into a gridlock, into a tunnel without an end in sight resembling an air chamber, with no entrance and no exit, with no birth and no death.
Obsessed lives, used and devoid of meaning; hypocrisy, insatiability and eternity, swallowed by the sh...

FORMATION
1993 / 1998
Spécialité - Arts graphiques
Lycée National Humanitaire « St. Cyril et Méthode »
Blagoévgrad / BULGARIE
1998 / 2003
Arts Graphiques
Université du Sud-Ouest « St. Néophit Rilski »
Blagoévgrad / BULGARIE

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2017
OMBRE MECANIQUE/ Paris / FRANCE
Jour et Nuit Culture
2015
LA CHUTE / Lyon / FRANCE
Salle d’exposition de la Mairie du 1-er arrondissement / LYON

2014
SANS CHEMIN / Galerie ART
Blagoévgrad / BULGARIE

2013
SOCGRAM / Art Galerie de ville Blagoévgrad
Blagoévgrad / BULGARIE

2012
TERMINUS / Blagoévgrad / BULGARIE
exposition en plein air - Place de la mairie



PRIX
2000
Prix de début, Exposition d’art contemporain « 11.11 »
Blagoévgrad / BULGARIE

2004
Prix d’estampe à l’Exposition régionale «Strouma»
Blagoévgrad / BULGARIE

2008
II – ème prix à l’Exposition Nationale de l’estampe pour
jeunes artistes et critiques « St. Cyril et Méthode »
Union des Artistes Bulgares
Sofia / BULGARIE

2010

Prix de jeune artiste à l’Exposition Nationale d’estampe
petit format de l’Union des Artistes Bulgares
Sofia / BULGARIE

2012
Prix de jeune artiste de la Municipalité de Blagoévgrad
Blagoévgrad / BULGARIE

2013
Grand prix de la Municipalité de Roussé – Biennale
Internationale de la miniature « MINIART »
Roussé / BULGARIE