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Alexander Todorov

Lyon, France •
Artist (Printmaking, Drawing) •
Born 1980 •

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.

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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.

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1998 - 2003 Arts Graphiques / Université du Sud-Ouest « St. Néophit Rilski » BLAGOEVGRAD, BULGARIE, Bulgaria
1993 - 1998 Spécialité - Arts graphiques / Lycée National Humanitaire « St. Cyril et Méthode » BLAGOEVGRAD, BULGARIE, Bulgaria

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2022 Nomination Concours Gravix / 2022 PARIS, France
2020 Nomination / Honorary Medal Triennale Mondiale D’estampes Petits Formats LODZ, Poland
2019 Nominationgrand Prix Acqui 2019 14Th International Biennial Of Engraving Italy
2019 Nomination Concours Gravix PARIS, France
2017 Honorary Medal Triennale Mondiale D’estampes Petits Formats Lodz / Pologne LODZ, Poland
2013 Grand Prix De La Municipalité De Roussé – Biennale Internationale De La Miniature « Miniart » Roussé, Bulgaria
2012 Prix De Jeune Artiste De La Municipalité De Blagoévgrad Blagoévgrad, Bulgaria
2010 Prix De Jeune Artiste À L’exposition Nationale D’estampe Petit Format De L’union Des Artistes Bulgares SOFIA, Bulgaria
2008 Ii – Ème Prix À L’exposition Nationale De L’estampe Pour Jeunes Artistes Et Critiques « St. Cyril Et Méthode » Union Des Artistes Bulgares SOFIA, Bulgaria
2004 Prix D’estampe À L’exposition Régionale «Strouma» Blagoévgrad, Bulgaria
2000 Prix De Début, Exposition D’art Contemporain « 11.11 » Blagoévgrad, Bulgaria

Collective Expositions

2022 Concours Gravix PARIS, France
2021 Lyon Art Paper Lyon, France
2021 Biennale Internationale D’estampe Yerevan YEREVAN, Armenia
2021 Triennale Grenchen Grenchen, Switzerland
2020 Triennale Mondiale D’estampes Petits Formats LODZ, Poland
2020 Lyon Art Paper Lyon, France
2019 Grand Prix Acqui 2019 14Th International Biennial Of Engraving Italy
2019 Concours Gravix PARIS, France
2019 Biennale Internationale D’estampe Yerevan YEREVAN, Armenia
2018 Biennale De Dreux 2018 France
2018 Mini Print Biennale 2018 Seacourt SEACOURT, United Kingdom
2017 Triennale Mondiale D’estampes Petits Formats LODZ, Poland
2017 Biennale Internationale D’estampe Varna Varna, Bulgaria
2017 Hida-Takayama International Contemporary Woodblock-Prints Triennale Takayama, Japan
2017 Iii Bienal Internacional De Estampa Jose Guadalupe Posada Mexico
2017 Biennale De L'esampe De Saint – Maur SAINT – MAUR, France
2016 9Th International Triennial Of Small Graphic Forms Vilnius VILNIUS, Lithuania
2014 Triennale Mondiale D’estampes Petits Formats LODZ, Poland
2013 Exposition Nationale D’estampes Petit Format De L’union Des Artistes Bulgares SOFIA, Bulgaria
2013 Biennale Internationale D’estampe Varna Varna, Bulgaria
2012 6-Ème Biennale Mondiale D’estampe Douro Douro, Portugal
2012 Directions Exposition D’alexander Todorov Et Vassil Anguélov Institut Culturel Bulgare De Mouscou Mouscou, Russia
2011 Biennale Internationale D’estampe Varna Varna, Bulgaria
2011 Exposition Nationale D’estampes Petit Format De L’union Des Artistes Bulgares SOFIA, Bulgaria
2011 20-Ème Biennale Internationale De L’humour Et De La Satire Dans Les Arts GABROVO, Bulgaria
2010 Triennale Mondiale D’estampes Petits Formats LODZ, Poland
2010 Exposition Nationale D’estampes Petit Format De L’union Des Artistes Bulgares SOFIA, Bulgaria
2010 Triennale Internationale De L'art Graphique SOFIA, Bulgaria
2009 Exposition-Concours Nationale Pour Jeunes Artistes De La Fondation « St. Cyril Et Méthode » Union Des Artistes Bulgares SOFIA, Bulgaria
2008 Exposition-Concours Nationale Pour Jeunes Artistes De La Fondation « St. Cyril Et Méthode » Union Des Artistes Bulgares SOFIA, Bulgaria

Publications & Press

2017 Actuel 9 Belgium

Solo Expositions

2022 Sans Chemin Blagoévgrad, Bulgaria
2019 Linogravure Lyon, France
2017 Ombre Mecanique PARIS, France
2015 La Chute Lyon, France
2013 Socgram Blagoévgrad, Bulgaria
2012 Terminus Blagoévgrad, Bulgaria

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Printmaking titled "KRAFTWERK I" by Alexander Todorov, Original Artwork, Xylography
©2016 Alexander Todorov
KRAFTWERK I - Printmaking, 9.1x9.1 in ©2016 by Alexander Todorov - Abstract, abstract-570, Industry, xylographie, abstrait, color, papier
Anna Gaikovich Portrait
Anna Gaikovich •
The textures and hues are breathtaking, love the technique used.
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Printmaking titled "KRAFTWERK I" by Alexander Todorov, Original Artwork, Xylography
©2016 Alexander Todorov
KRAFTWERK I - Printmaking, 9.1x9.1 in ©2016 by Alexander Todorov - Abstract, abstract-570, Industry, xylographie, abstrait, color, papier
Alexander Todorov Portrait
Bonjour, Merci pour votre message. Je vous confirme que l'oeuvre est toujours disponible. Je vais envoyer des photos supplémentaires à l'adresse que vous m'avez communiqué. En vous souhaitant un très bon weekend, je me tiens à votre disposition pour tout renseignement complémentaire si besoin. Cordialement, Alexander TODOROV
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André Simonin Portrait
Oeuvres provoquant l'imaginaire notamment celles composées d'infimes ouvertures lumineuses arrachées aux ténèbres. Merci.
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Printmaking titled "Industrial zone I" by Alexander Todorov, Original Artwork, Linocuts
©2010 Alexander Todorov
Industrial zone I - Printmaking, 3.1x2.8 in ©2010 by Alexander Todorov -
Alexander Todorov Portrait
Merci Jeannette !
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Printmaking titled "Industrial zone I" by Alexander Todorov, Original Artwork, Linocuts
©2010 Alexander Todorov
Industrial zone I - Printmaking, 3.1x2.8 in ©2010 by Alexander Todorov -
Jeannette Allary Portrait
Jeannette Allary •
Travail difficile et résultat élégant !
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