Biography
Kamen Startchev was born in 1971 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He lives and works in Sofia. In 1997 he obtained his MFA in Sculpture at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, in the class of Prof. Emil Popov. He realize many solo exhibitions including: 2018 - “Daylight” - Rakursi Gallery - Sofia, Bulgaria, 2017 – „Extintion of memory” - Contemporary space , Varna , Bulgaria, 2017 – „Final report” - Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia , Bulgaria, 2016 – „The Body of Orpheus ” - U-P.A.R.K. Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria , 2015 - “Diversification of the moon” - Goethe Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013 - “Wastewater treatment plants ІІ” - The Fridge Gallery - Sofia, Bulgaria, 2011 - "New Land"– National Art Gallery - Sofia, Bulgaria.
He also participated in many group exhibitions like: 2016 – „Instead of a Head of a Poet” – REMONT Gallery- Belgrade ,Serbia, 2016 – “Grayscale - 20 contemporary bulgarian artists”, Gallery art 55 , Nish, Serbia, 2015 – „Save the Dreams” IMAGO MUNDI- Luciano Benetton Collection. Mappa del’arte nouova – Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice Italy , 2015 – „Graphic. Why?”- Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia , Bulgaria, 2015 – „Fortress” – Sofia Arsenal – Museum for contemporary art , Sofia, Bulgaria, 2015 – „Image and Likeness”, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2015 – “What do you see?” , Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia,Bulgaria, 2014- 'My Name is Artist' - Art center Hugo Voeten – Herentals. Belgium, 2014- “BULGARIAN PRINTS”- Centre for Graphic Arts and Visual Researches “Akademija“ – Belgrade, Serbia
2013 - Kaleidoscope: Contemporary Art from EU Member States - Farmleigh Gallery- Dublin, Ireland.
Winner of the Grand prix - 7th International Print Art Triennial – Sofia 2014.
His works are part of the collections of the National Art Gallery and Sofia City Art Gallery Bulgaria.
About
The works of Kamen Startchev use recognizable details from the reality, brought out to almost abstract forms, which intensifi their effects throught their alienation to specific connotations, functionality, and context. The digital print allows additional technicising of the images to a degree of a laconic expression, when they acquire the structure of a diagram; the images are devoid of all possible subject matter and causal commitment, and the color solutions are dominated by synthetic colors. The graphics of Startchev are not key of physiognomic fragments, but rather their alternative, unfolding opportunities for unusual configuration of a new materialiti.
- Galina Lardeva
Gallery
Kamen Startchev
The body of Orpheus - Lesbos island, 2016.
Digital Art
Details
- Material: Pigment print on paper
- Width: 150.00 cm Height: 100.00 cm Depth: cm
Kamen Startchev
Penetration, 2017.
Digital Art
Details
- Material: Pigment print on paper
- Width: 110.00 cm Height: 165.00 cm Depth: cm
Kamen Startchev
Earthlight, 2014.
Digital Art
Details
- Material: Pigment print on paper
- Width: 120.00 cm Height: 180.00 cm Depth: cm
Kamen Startchev
Real trea sure, 2011.
Digital Art
Details
- Material: Pigment print on paper
- Width: 130.00 cm Height: 110.00 cm Depth: cm
Kamen Startchev
The joy of life, 2017.
Digital Art
Details
- Material: Pigment print on paper
- Width: 90.00 cm Height: 55.00 cm Depth: cm
Kamen Startchev
Waste water treatment plants 9, 2013.
Digital Art
Details
- Material: Pigment print on paper
- Width: 165.00 cm Height: 110.00 cm Depth: cm
- Description: За статия
