Anastas Kamburov

Born on February 12, 1950 in Shumen, Bulgaria, Anastas now lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he creates in such diverse media as painting, varnish painting, mural painting, glass staining, interior design, fashion design, and stage design, as well as art direction for cinema and TV. Anastas also established PINTO design studio, which became a brand name of exclusivity and synthesis in design.

He has had numerous solo exhibitions and has participated in various international projects in Bulgaria, France, Morocco, and the United States. At the invitation of the French Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA), Anastas participated in the Salon 2000 in Carousell de Louvre, Paris. Anastas' ideas in design are being published in renowned specialized editions, and several of his paintings are held by private collections in Sofia, Athens, Dusseldorf, Paris, Milan, as well as in several United States cities.

Enrico Paolucci

Enrico Paolucci nasce a Pienza. Dopo essersi laureato in legge all'Università di Siena decide di seguire la propria vocazione artistica. Fin dall'inizio rappresenta le proprie opere con uno stile artistico del tutto personale. Dapprima si dedica all'arte del modellare la creta ma ben presto passa a trattare la cartapesta, che diventerà il suo materiale preferito. Con questa tecnica, da lui riveduta, realizza sculture e pannelli in bassorilievo.

Enrico Paolucci was born in Pienza. After graduatingin law from the University of Siena, he dedicated to follow an artistic career. Immediately began to portray his work with a very personal artistic style. Initially he moulded clay but soon after he began to handle papier mâché, which is his favourite material. With this technique, which he has personalised, he has created artistically unique sculptures and bas-relief panels.

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Onnik Stepan Karanfilian

"RESPICE FINEM"

NAME - Onnik Stepan Karanfilian – O n n i k
BORN - 1963 Sliven, Bulgaria.
EDUCATION -1994, MFA. The National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Rossen Ianev

I was born in Bulgaria to a father who was a trained artist. I started to paint and took music lessons at a very early age. Painting without any formal training was a challenging way to discover myself, my way of thinking and of self-expression. For this reason, I consider myself to be a self-taught artist. Continuing to paint while staying aloof from art schools, I completed studies in Economics and in 1990 I moved to Germany. Migrating from Eastern Europe was a formative experience culturally and artistically. I became fascinated with Bauhaus, Kandinsky, Hundertwasser, and with the power of simplicity and of the spiritual in art. I started exhibiting my paintings in the street during Christmas Markets. This experience became a wonderful opportunity to share my visions and opinions about art with a variety of people. Life in Germany gave me perseverance, fuelled an insatiable desire to find news means of self-expression, and opened me to modern thought. For the past 20 years, I have been living and working as a graphic designer in Montreal all the while continuing to paint and experimenting with different media.

My art is based on improvisation. I seek a formally surprising, aesthetically beautiful and timeless art. I believe that in order to possess such qualities a painting must remain to a certain extent unfinished. It should evolve and find completion imaginatively, through the viewer who gives it life. Even painting, in this sense, is a profoundly participatory art form, the means through which artist and spectator enter into dialogue.