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Luben Denev

1958 - born in Sevlievo, Bulgaria

1977 - finished the High School of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria

1985 - graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts "Nicolay Pavlovich" in Sofia

1985-87 - participation in National exhibitions of fine arts

1988 - recieved an award by the Committee of Culture on the National exhibition of sculpture

1990 - participated in the exhibition of miniatures in the Gallery "Taoka" in Duesseldorf,
Germany

1990-1992 - submitted paintings and sculptures for private collections in Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland

1992 - 20 October - 10 December - gallery "Notre-Dame", Paris 75006 Rue Cassette - paintings

Decembre 1993 - January 1994 - Avenue Foch Paris XV², exhibition "Contemporary Bulgarian Art"

1993 - April - Theatre "Monparnasse" - sculpture

October 1993 - August 1994 - Place du Palais Royal, 202 Rue St-Honore Paris -
        The choice to connect my looking for in art with the problems of anomalous phenomena was natural and imperceptible. It was based on the ideas and definitions about art that were close to mythinking - longing for ideal, jump in to the unknown and even the definition of Picasso - "The ard should be dangerous, if it is not dangerous it is not art ". I was tempted to feel a part of all the collective unconscious mental development forward the "new" problems.
I am glad to know that surrealism is a step on the way from realistic painting to, let us call it "astral" painting. The problems of subconscious visualized in strange dreams and mental pictures I see as a gleam of hope for existing of other worlds and measurements. The idea of subconscious as a gleam of hope for existing of superconscious.
The influence of inventions in science on the development of art impressed me with its consecutive logicality. The invention of the components of light inspired impressionism. The scientific ideas of Froin inspired one of the best paintings of Salvador Dali. I think the last scientific looking for in physics of elementary parts, fineenergetics, strange results of experiments of Lorentzo Bockone and a lot of other inventions, which give another, more realistic view of the occult science and give principally new and infinite opportunities for art inventions.
The feeling of natural unsatisfactory because of scientific maxim, that what we cannot prove on the level of our knowledge is non-existing. I am sacrally, mystically interested in all seriel of fantastic events called anomalous.
From the impossibility to have a small idea in which way the small pyramid makes a waste away shave razor sharp enough to use it all. Levitation, telaesthaesia, telequinesa, clairvoyance, seeing through walls, swarm the time, dematerialization, spontaneous burn, the phenomenal operations of Brasilian mediums Hose Arigo.
Through the improbable speed of UFO, the creatures of other planets, the cosmic origin of the human being, cosmic archaeology.
I feel totaly impressed by the deep emotional influence of folk songs like being inspired of superextrasensor perception and finally the cosmic sounds of Bulgarian folk songs.
Knowing the unbreakable unit of shades, volumes, wards, natural structures in the universe I am happy to be an artist to reflect the reality as far as I can perceive it.