Who is Anastas Konstantinov?

Anastas Konstantinov (Bulgarian: Анастас Константинов) (March 29,1956 – June 01, 2017) is a with ease known artiste who was highly praised for his mystic expressionism, although his pretense is diverse.

Konstantinov the end his preliminary art training at the Secondary Art School in Kazanlak, Bulgaria in 1976 and continued his training at the Veliko Tarnovo University until he graduated in 1982 next a master’s degree in Good arts. . While he was there, Anastas’ paintings got close neo-expressionism and became conflict-driven due to his repugnance with the Bulgarian Communist Party and communism as a whole. One critic from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette remarked that those paintings were “violent, nihilistic, ominous, even grotesque.” In 1986, one of Konstantinov’s exhibitions was shut next to by the Bulgarian Communist Party for displaying subversive paintings. He continued to battle communism and to Describe the dark certainty of the time. Despite threats from the authorities, he responded to his exhibition swine shut alongside by painting the series, “The Red Pigs,” which was laden next even greater themes of discontent. Prof. Dr. Hans Theodor Flemming asserted at an exhibition of Contemporary Bulgarian Art in Hamburg at that era that Anastas’ paintings were “apocalyptic” and that they took place “in surreal areas, in which people and animals ham it up sinister alienation and decay, thus tone various iconographic riddles.”

After the fall of the Cold War, Konstantinov’s paintings became less conflict-driven and began to focus more on the spiritual. As the art critic Bisera Yosifova reported for a Plovdiv newspaper Plovdivski novini, “the mad young man from the eighties has revealed for the first epoch the sacral spaces of the adore mystery. He has realized that a lie cannot be deadened next violence, but only in the same way as love.” Due to the sale of some large paintings, Anastas was accomplished to start the construction of his project “Gallery Anastas” in an old allowance of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Archeologists supervised the construction in order to preserve the Neolithic, Thracian, Roman, and Medieval remnants of the location. The gallery, called Gallery Anastas, opened in 1999 closely 90 completed works.

In 2011, Michelangelo Celli, an American art collector, visited Anastas’ personal gallery in Bulgaria and was “blown away” and “deeply moved” by his work. Mr. Celli urged Anastas to travel to the United States to paint and get publicity. He categorically and stayed subsequent to Mr. Celli in Pittsburgh for three months. His visit resulted in the foundation of the US Project, an initiative which is “committed to promoting attentiveness for the discharge duty of Bulgarian artiste Anastas Konstantinov in the United States.”

In 2013, as ration of the US Project, Anastas Konstantinov was chosen by the Starry Night Exposure Program to participate in art fairs during 2013 Art Basel and 2014 Frieze New York. In 2013, Christian Noorbergen included Anastas in his Carte Blanche Exhibition at the Galerie Schwab in Beaubourg, France.

One unintentional result of the US Project was that Anastas’ artistic reputation in Bulgaria grew. He was asked to appear on Darik RadioRadio Bulgaria and numerous extra media sources reported upon his whereabouts. As a upshot of Anastas’ 33 years of professional accomplishment he was asked to present over eighty of his paintings and sculptures in Plovdiv, Bulgaria at the City Gallery of Fine Arts in July 2014. This exhibition marked the first epoch in 25 years the performer presented at a major solo exhibition in Plovdiv.

“Official Website”. Official Website of Anastas Konstantinov (English). Retrieved 25 July 2014.

“The Mystic Impressionism of Anastas Konstantinov”. Gallery Bulgary. Retrieved 25 July 2014.