wartburg (2008) Printmaking by Alexander Todorov

I was born 9 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Under the red star I discovered the industrial revolution. I grew up under the gaze of portraits of party secretaries. The world beyond the wall was a dream, consumer society remained in the pages of Neckermann.
Linocut was used for political propaganda. For this reason I chose the technique of high relief - linocut, woodcut. I am interested in the absorption capacity of black, in the creation of the sign, of the sign – symbol. I look for the visible invisible and plunged in the shadows.
Significant sign, signifying, limited, traced image exhibiting, showing a female body - window mannequin, rejected, used, vain, useless, in the midst of abandoned industrial buildings like empty skeletons. A past life, expectations, hopes bearing on the birth of the new Man, illusions and deceived delusions, detached from reality, absorbed by a madness which metamorphoses again into a dead end, into a tunnel with no exit like a inner tube, without beginning or end, without birth, without death.
Lives obsessed, used and meaningless; hypocrisy, insatiability and eternity, swallowed up by the shadows of stations, lean-tos, underground passages; enclosed spaces, halls, identical windows, roofs as far as the eye can see, fireplaces, monotonous horizons, repetitive rhythm, Kraftwerk.
Far from our eyes, hidden in the shadows of industrial monuments, I search for the problems of post-industrial society - estrangement from nature, inherited worry, confusion, end, transition, end.
I see Man, abandoned spirit, anxious, oppressed, downcast, wounded, vain, rejected, weak, defenseless, absurd, pathless, fallen, unreal - both Object and Subject who used, worn out, worn out, stripped , usurped, despised, thrown away.
Reason tames the mind. Art is transformed into the projection of an art, which functions as a utilitarian art and becomes the art of reason / rationality, of administration, of power.
I chase these little unconscious particles that ignite the flame of the spirit, where reason becomes a simple observer, a witness.

• Nationality: BULGARIA
• Date of birth : 1980
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Bulgarian Artists