Angel Atanasov

I graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia in 1988 and in the same year I participated in a sculpture symposium in the village of Yasna Polyana, Bulgaria.
I have participated in joint exhibitions and symposiums in Varna and Dortdrecht, the Netherlands.
In 1990 I received the 3rd prize at the Sculpture Biennale in Toronto, Canada.
From 1999 to 2011 I was a sculpture lecturer, together with Prof. Bozhidar Kozarev, at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia.
In 2023 I opened my first solo exhibition of sculpture at the Contrast Gallery, Sofia – “The Miraculous Emergence of Complex Spatial Forms”.

Over the years I have been very deeply impressed by the world of forms, devoid of narrative and explanation, the strong impact of the sculptural form as a sound, as an inner harmony that radiates spatial and plastic power. Composing based on complex derivative spatial bodies, searching for plasticity as melody and rhythm, defined by the relationship between surface and plane.

National Art Academy of Sofia in 1988. Sculpture

1988. Graduated from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, and the same year participated in a symposium on sculpture in the village of Yasna Polyana, Bulgaria.
1989 Participated in a general exhibition in the city of Varna.
1990 III Prize in the Sculpture Biennale in Toronto, Canada.
1991 Participated in a sculpture symposium and exhibition in Dortdrecht, the Netherlands.
1996 Participated in a symposium on the sculptor in the city of Dortdrecht, the Netherlands.
1998 Participated in an exhibition of Bulgarian contemporary art in the Netherlands.
1999-2011 Teaches sculpture, together with Prof. Bozhidar Kozarev, at the Academy of Arts, Sofia.
2023 Solo exhibition of sculpture in the Contrast gallery - "The wondrous emergence of complex spatial forms".