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 - |
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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.
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