IVAN GAZDOV, graphics and sculpture 7-21.01.2025

IVAN GAZDOV

GOOD BIBRATION

graphics and sculpture

7-21.01.2025

As a tradition, ARTE Gallery invites Ivan Gazdov to celebrate his name day with an exhibition, which this year is only the first of a series of events in honour of the eightieth anniversary of our renowned artist. Author of his own genre – graphicatures, lover of postmodern irony and references to the classics, Prof. Gazdov manages to be the same in his art – stylistically identical, and at the same time unpredictable. Now, after decades devoted to the graphic image with its abstract generality and black and white poetry, he presents in ARTE something like sculptures, like accidental finds from the three-dimensional world, like well-thought-out plastic replicas to the ascetic two-dimensionality of drawing. He had been making them, in passing, since his youth, before completing and arranging them for an audience in an urge that came, perhaps, from the continuity of creative time, which you consider in a reverse manner. A gesture of today’s artist to his previous states and periods…

Georgi Lozanov, January 2025