Silvia Popova

Bulgaria

Sofia

Little Bird Place

Painting

Fourteen Walks

A Piece of Leaf Among a Background Noise

Stairs crawling on plants

Atanas Levakov

Mixed Media

Feeling of Leshten

The Colour of Leshten

Untitled

Svetli Evgeniev

“The Artist residency in Leshten motivates me to create three-dimensional, dynamic projects. Created from paper and plaque – waste taken from an industrial zone for recycling materials. They are the material itself for the artwork. Thus, the pollution cycle is interrupted, saving harmful emissions from the incineration of unnecessary rubbish. Part of the artwork is fresh, sterile and anesthetized, the other part is saturated, colored and amorphous. A contrast is created between the architectural and natural environment. ” – Svetli Evgeniev, 2021

Feng Shui

Greenhouse 1

Strahil Penev

In his series of photographic experiments, Strahil explores the motive for the “cultivation” of nature through his specific views of it. The suggestion that in today’s world we are inevitably “spectators” of nature through screens, through glass frames, superimposed surfaces, sometimes cracked or distorted – reflections of our perception of nature as a cultural phenomenon with clear outlines and horizons… We are provoked to find forgotten or abandoned natural views behind the many cracked “glass screens” that humanity seems to only impose on itself in search of communication with the surrounding world.

Photography

Total Screen III

Mihaela Mihaylova

"To resemble geographical maps and relief structures, I used thinners for alkyd paints, sprays and varnishes containing aerosols, aromatic (arenes) and aliphatic hydrocarbons (CnH2n + 2), substances that cause serious pollution in the environment. All these chemicals and their industrial use lead to environmental problems, natural disasters and demographic collapse. These works are invented relief structures showing the battle of nature with toxic waste.", M.Mihaylova, 2021

Spill 2

Spill 3

Spill 1

Total Screen II

Total Screen I

Harmful Map 2

Harmful Map 1

Albena Petkova

Parallel II

Parallel I

~ After the successful and inspiring first edition of Little Bird Artist Residency in the summer of 2020, the team of Little Bird Place Gallery continued the initiative and gave the opportunity to 6 young Bulgarian contemporary artists to work this spring in the Little Bird International Artist Residency, located in an authentic old house in the village of Leshten.

~ Participants are: SILVIA POPOVA, ATANAS LEVAKOV, ALBENA PETKOVA, SVETLI EVGENIEV, MIHAELA MIHAYLOVA, STRAHIL PENEV

~ They explored the topic “Contemporary art dedicated to ecology” through various approaches.

~ Curator and consultant during the residency and the final exhibition is the art historian Teodora Konstantinova (in partnership with the platform for contemporary art and culture Art and Culture Today (www.ARTandCulture.Today).

 

The Jury members for the selection of artists were:

Art historians Teodora Konstantinova and Radoslav Mehandzhiyski from the platform for contemporary art and culture Art and Culture Today (www.ARTandCulture.Today), Antoaneta Quick – art manager of Little Bird Place Gallery and Rossen Uzunov – founder and owner of Little Bird Place Gallery.

MADE IN LESHTEN Vol. 3

MADE IN LESHTEN Vol. 3

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