site.btaArtist Ivan Gazdov to Mark His Name Day Unveiling Exhibition at Sofia's Arte Gallery

Bulgarian artist Ivan Gazdov will celebrate his name day with the exhibition Rain 2 on January 7 in Sofia's Arte Gallery, the author announced on Saturday. The exhibition will be on display until January 23.

Nikolay Karamanov will be a guest artist at the exhibition.  

Ivan Gazdov was born in the southeastern town of Yambol in 1945. He graduated in the Poster speciality from the National Academy of Art as a student of Prof. Alexander Poplilov. In 1978, Gazdov took a specialization course at Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He was Rector of the National Academy of Art in 1999-2003. He has received 20 national and 14 international prizes for visual arts, including a Hidezo Kondo special prize for caricature from the International Competition of The Yomiuri Shimbun of Tokyo in 1986; an Award at Art Directors Club, New York, 1989; a Silver Medal for Achievement in the Twentieth Century from the International Biographical Institute, Cambridge, England, 1992; and a Golden Age State Award from Bulgaria's Culture Ministry in 2015.

He is the author of over 20 albums and books. His works can be found in more than 20 museums, galleries and collections around the world and Bulgaria, including the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama, Japan, Die Neue Sammlung in Munich, and Bibliotheque Forney in Paris.