issue 5 year I jan/feb 2014
Vassil Goranov
„I will always strive to achieve progress and to create uncreated“
IN FRONT OF THE LENS OF
OMID GOLZAR
Face to Face with the Insects
ART MUSEUM
A Modern Masterpiece
by Concrete and Glass
YOUNG ART HOPES
Ран манолов
About the perfection of the detail and the vocation of the artist
DANOR SHTRUZMAN
Art on the Book paper
music for our eyes
PIANO AND VIOLIN HOUSE IN HUINAN
THE TEAM Manager Pavlin Petrov pavlin@artmanager7.com Editor – in – Chief Daniela KAPINCHEVA daniela@artmanager7.com Graphic Design Evgeniya Kostakieva nia@artmanager7.com IT and Program supporting Nikolaj Penchev Photographer Alexander Kamenov Art director Evgeniya Kostakieva nia@artmanager7.com
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EDITORIAL EMOTIONS
For the beauty
in all its forms and shapes The beauty is an integral part of our human nature. The art is a unique manifestation precisely of our sworn and eternal pursuit of beauty, harmony and perfection. The beauty itself has an infinite number of shapes, dimensions and manifestations just like the love has. We all from „Art Manager 7“ are connoisseurs of the beautiful and the valuable, so we try through the pages of our magazine to make you sympathetic to many beautiful works of art, many beautiful places in the world and equally beautiful revelations of people, who had linked in some way their life with creating. In the fifth issue of the magazine we will invite you on a journey to the sunny and romantic Brazil; will reveal the secrets of the modern neoclassicism, and at the end will try to make more familiar, even only partially, the wonderful symbiosis between the man and the technology in the name of a brand new generation of high quality art. The colorful carnival procession of our pages promises not to leave you indifferent to that world, parallel to our gray everyday life, where rules the refinement and the need to please ourselves and the others by what we create. „The beauty will save the world!“ - exclaimed Dostoevsky in the past on the pages of his brilliant novel, with a little bit strange title „Idiot.“ Undeniable the beauty has the ability to ennoble us, to smooth the rough edges of the human expressions and to save us again and again from the depths of the poor spirits, where dominate the darkness and loneliness. I believe you will find this time again many reasons for smiles being in our company. Let be beauty for all of you! Till the next issue!
Daniela KAPINCHEVA Editor – in – Chief
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Art museum SAO PAULO MUSEUM OF ART
04 In front of the lens of…
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ART SPACE “ZIPPER” GALLERY
OMID GOLZAR Face to Face with the Insects
08 Creative revelations
18 YOUNG ART HOPES RAN MANOLOV
Vassil GORANOV A Romantic Neoclassicist in the World of Modern Art
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ART DESIGN Piano and violin house in huinan
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Art without standard DANOR SHTRUZMAN Art on the Book paper
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ART GUIDE The statue of Christ the Savior in Rio de Janeiro
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IN FRONT OF THE LENS OF…
e c a F o t e c a F s t c e s n I e h t h t wi OMID GOLZAR
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e is nice, smiling young man whose greatest passion is to shoot the insects and spiders in untypical and very attractive way. Omid lives and works in the Iranian town Tabriz. Most of his picks are macro and micro photography. He accepts that kind of photography as his biggest love, because as he says “It’s where I can close 4
the door to the outside world and to open another one, behind which I can rest and relax from all the problems in the world. The camera takes me on a journey into a secret and unknown world of insects and spiders. It allows me to see miracles, which can’t be seen with the naked eye.”. Omid believes that finding his own life’s passion is the most important thing for every man on the Earth, and the greatest happiness for every one of us is to be
able to do what we like most of all. The shots of Omid are more than brilliant, but they are just the nice end of his hard work hours after hours. Sometimes his imagination creates unique picks, which are impossible to be made. That is why he sometimes uses the Photoshop to finish his work in the best way.
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mid Golzar was 24 years old when he started dealing with photography. At that moment he hadn’t yet chosen the specific direction for his artworks. His first shot was with a 18-135 mm Canon with normal lens. That shot was a kind of prediction for the young man. After it he entered the wonderful world of insects and fell in love with it. Because of his growing interest in shooting insects he was extremely forced to solve his problems with his poor equipment if he wanted to achieve the best shots for which he dreamed on. At that time he could only afford himself to buy an Exakta 28 mm with analog lens because he had such a poor budget for his equipments. He needed to be more ingenious that is why he created himself a reverse lens by using lens and cover which he mounted on his camera. He learned that the special lighting and the minimum distance are the most important factors in macro photography. Here came another problem – Omid had needed some flashes for lighting. So he bought an old Osram FF22 flash. After changing some parts of it he was ready to mount it on his camera, but he wasn’t satisfied yet, because he should have a softer light. That’s why he understood he needs to have a diffuser. At the end he built one. That was his new beginning and after a few months he already had good shots
The shots of Omid are more than brilliant, but they are just the nice end of his hard work hours after hours.
with accurate and acceptable details. Omid completes the picture of his early dealing with photography in this way: “During sunrise there are drops on plants and on some insects, but unfortunately I’m not always able to shoot during these mornings. That’s why I provided a drop make spray to have some more variety in my photography.” 5
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fact
On our planet each square mile in residential areas is populated with more than 26 billion insects. Do you pay attention to them? Mr. Golzar definitely does!
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ay after day the work of Omid Golzar became better and he felt more satisfied. But he had to work harder and harder in order to have even better results. Soon he understood that he needed a special instrument to let him get more accurate sharpness of the picks without the disturbance of any small vibration. He found out the right information, than he learned almost all about the most proper techniques for this case and at the end he built himself a machine that had moved his camera carefully on a special rail.
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hooting insects is not an easy work. Obviously insects are not able to stand still for a long time or to pose for a perfect image and the young man sometimes had to make over than 100
shots. It had taken a lot of hours to realize a good photo and Omid already knows that he had to find a way to hunt for insects safely without moving or killing them, but in the same time to force them to stand still. Finally he found the salvation. Decreasing the insects body temperature with special spray helped him to have better sharpness in his shots. Finally his pictures were all he wanted them to be – intriguing, аmazing and memorable! Daniela Kapinceva 7
CREATIVE REVELATIONS
A Romantic Neoclassicist in the t r A n r e d o M f o d l r o W Vassil GORANOV Vasil Goranov is from those artists who have the ability to tell stories with their paintings. Vivid, bright, memorable, the images and the scenes that the artist recreates are carrying the spirit of time and space, which were sealed in them. Born in the picturesque Rhodope town of Velingrad /Bulgaria/, Vasil had discovered quite early his attraction to the fine art. He graduated with a high degree in „Painting“, which he studied in the class of Prof. Nikolay Ruschokliev in Veliko Tarnovo /Bulgaria/. The painter determines his style as a Neoclassicism with modern elements at the border of Surrealism. His paintings are filled with a soft light, which gives them a special kind of mysticism and romance.
When did you feel the need to draw and when did you realize that you have the gift to do it? I paint since I have some memories for myself. I remember that I was only four years old when I won my first contest in my hometown. People who I accept as explorers of my talent are my kindergarten teachers. From that moment I’ve always known that I will be an artist, because this is my calling in this life! 8
What inspires you to create all this beauty and grace on your canvases? When I am conquer by the muses of the inspiration, I am going into a strange special state, which do not leave me until the finishing of the artwork. On the other hand each work entails a new one; that one provokes another and in fact it becomes an endless cycle of creation. Leading for me too is my constant need for development
Fact Khan Kubrat is the founder of Old Greater Bulgaria and one of the significant names in the ancient world history.
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CREATIVE REVELATIONS
and cultivation which initially lies in the human nature. I accept myself as a successful person somehow in terms of my idea for myself, but even when I will be 100 years old, I’ll still want to learn new things, to improve and develop myself.
The Bulgarian history is rich and full with countless shining examples of greatness and power. It is an invaluable source of national pride and certainly would be interesting to other nations and cultures. 10
Do you have a special relationship with some of your works? Is there such artwork among them, which has a special significance and symbolism for you as an artist and as a person? I can not say that some of my works are more special for me than the others are. I am trying to be the fully dedicated to the work on each of them. The truth is that I‘m a perfect workaholic – I am working 14-15 hour a day. The nature of things that I am drawing is more specific, actually they are very labor intensive, in most cases they are quite volume as sizes and of course all of them require a great precision and accuracy. Often they are preceded by extensive studies of images, clothing, details and specific characteristics of time and space, which I recreate on the canvases. I am trying to be maximum truthful and realistic in every aspect.
In your artworks are presented many historical characters, themes and storylines. What have provoked you to create them? Isn’t it a fruit of some creative nostalgia, a fruit of different aesthetic and other values? Now more than ever we, Bulgarians, need to define ourselves, to understand who we are and what we are. We need to synchronize our watches with Europe and with the world in general, and to choose the direction of our way toward our future. Our history is rich and full with countless shining examples of greatness and power. It is an invaluable source of national pride and certainly would be interesting to other nations and cultures. In modern painting there is a lacks of impressive battle scenes, of the ancient culture and traditions. We should not forget the fact that the modern man is looking for a new interpretation of the historical events and the history as a whole. He needs an interesting and exciting way in which they to be presented to him. It is required for the artist to have a specific talent and style of working to attract the attention of the man who lives from a long time in the era of modern visual technologies. In practice, this is my way of communication with my audience - through my artworks. If people look for and want my paintings, it means that I’ve found the right approach in my work as an artist. It happens very often to me to work in orders. My clients describe in detail what they want to be paint in the picture. But the happiness and the delight they feel at the sight of the finished work can not be compared with any other recognition of my talent and my gift.
Too much color, emotional blast and positive energy stream from your paintings. What causes that? I entirely live with each artpiece I‘m working on. I am spending long hours in front of the canvas, which is all the time in a few inches from me. Every detail in my paintings is recreated by me with a lot of emotions and energy. While I am working I am fully engulfed in the artwork, I am settling down in its reality and put much from myself in each piece.
There is a special kind of romance and idyllically in your works. If these works are your innermost, intimate creative world, what would you like to bring from this world into our busy and a little bit gray everyday life? There is an undisguised desire in me to paint like the old masters. I must confess that I live with a constant nostalgia for those old times, in which the man’s word and our ability to stand on it was a matter of honor; times in which the respect to the others and the good manners were something normal and natural. Unfortunately, in our modern life the concepts for good and evil are pretty fuzzy. Very often we see situations in which the „bad“ character is good, and the „good“ one is the loser. The honesty in people is what I miss much. The reality in which we live is quite different. 11
CREATIVE REVELATIONS People are constantly changing. The way in which they seek to live is changing too. Everyone lives with the dream to be rich and famous, but it often displaces humanity on the background and gives this striving deformity and insincerity.
Are there any artists who you take as your teachers in your work as an artist? I’ve always set in front of me high goals as an artist, that‘s why I strive for the highest achievements of the best classics in the world. I’ve learned much from the works of the old masters of the Renaissance. I make a bow to the talent of Repin, Rubens and Leonardo da Vinci. Among my favorite Bulgarian artists are Vladimir Dimitrov – the Master, Veshin and Anton Mitov. When do you think the artist can be considered as a successful one and in that meaning do you accept yourself as a successful artist? My measure for successful man is too high. I‘ve never accepted myself as a 12
successful artist and never felt completely satisfied by my work. I am from those people who are trying to reach the sunset on the horizon but it still remains as unattainable as it was ever, which is actually a great motivation and an incentive for development. I will always want to reach the unreachable, to create uncreated and to find the unknown.
Among the Goranov‘s favorite Bulgarian artists are:
Vladimir Dimitrov the Master
What kind of dreams you link with the art that you create? Looking back in time I remember that when I was 18-19 years old, I wanted to be what I am today. When a dream becomes a reality, it inevitably is replaced by another. What I am dreaming for now is hard to define. My dreams are many and multidirectional, and probably the whole life won’t be enough for me to realize them. In row of these thoughts I remember a sentence that one of my teachers - the sculptor Professor Constantin Denev had shared with us while we were his students and were always asking him how to become successful artists. He said that if we fall in love like never before in our lives, if we can win so much money that we can not spend them for three whole lives, and finally, if we draw each piece as if it is the last one to create, inevitably we will leave behind us a traces as artists. This is a vicious circle in which our lives revolve. We are pushing our stone up to the rock and always look to the top. How would you complete the phrase: „Art is .......“? Art is a way to remove our look from our feet in the direct and the figurative meaning of the word.
Anton Mitov
Daniela Kapincheva
The portrait of the actress Iskra Radeva
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ART MUSEUM
A Modern Masterpiece by Concrete and Glass SAO PAULO MUSEUM OF ART
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he São Paulo Museum of Art (in Portuguese, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, or MASP) is the strangest building in the city as a shape and appearance. It is an art museum, which is located on “Paulista” Avenue in the cit.y of São Paulo /Brazil/. The building astonishes with its huge body, made by concrete and glass, supported by two lateral beams. Designed by Lina Bo Bardi, the art space is considered as a landmark of the city and a main symbol of the modern Brazilian architecture. The Museum was founded in 1947 by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Maria Bardi. MASP is a distinguished art center and the main reason for that is its art life full of initiatives and events. Among the most important spheres of its interests are the museology and the art education in Brazil. Being the first Brazilian museum interested in Post-World War II artistic tendencies and for its pioneering role in the cultural life of the city, the MASP became one of the most popular and visited places in São Paulo. The Museum has a wide international recognition because of its valuable collections of European art. The most important part of the Museum’s fund is the amazing assemblage of Brazilian art, including prints and drawings. In addition
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the MASP presents some smaller collections of African and Asian art, antiquities, decorative arts, and other art pieces different in kind. The total amount of the artworks here is more than 8,000 pieces. One of the prides of MASP is art library, which is the largest in the country. The entire collection of the Museum has been named by Brazil‘s Institute of History and Art as “The Brazilian National Heritage List”. Let’s take a look at the history of the museum. At the end of the 1940s, Brazilia and its whole economy were passing through great structural changes. São Paulo was a city with impressive traditions in its artistic and cultural life. The art has
a special place in most of the media at these changing times. Assis Chateaubriand was one of the most influential people for that part of Brazilian history. He was the founder and the owner of Diários Associados /“Associated Daily Press“/ which was accepted as the largest media and press conglomerate of Brazil at the time. Chateaubriand was among the most active leaders, who were the front line of the national moves toward modernization. That is why he was called jokingly a „King of Brazil“. Being such awaken person he understood the great need of art museum for the country and at the end he decided to create it himself. The first destination he had chosen was Rio de Janeiro, but soon he had changed his mind and his last choice was São Paulo. Chateaubriand had felt that
he would need the help of an expert in the sphere of the visual arts to make the best selection of the artworks for the fund. He invited Pietro Maria Bardi, an Italian professor, critic and art dealer, former owner of galleries in Milan and Rome. The professor would help him to create a „Museum of Classical and Modern Art“ in Brazil, which had changed into São Paulo Museum of Art. Accepting the proposal Bardi had dedicated the rest of his life to this project. He moved to Brazil together with his wife, the architect Lina Bo Bardi, and brought along with him his personal library and his private art collection. The museum was opened to public on the 2th of October 1947. In the beginning it was located on the first floor of the “Diarios Associados” building. Lina Bo 15
ART MUSEUM Bardi was the one who had to adapt the place to the needs of the Museum, forming the separated spaces for the art gallery, for the didactic exposition room about the art, a space for the temporary exhibition room and for the auditorium. In the 1950s the Museum had opened the Institute of Contemporary Art and a Publicity School (presently Superior School of Propaganda and Marketing). It generated many events like organizing debates about cinema and literature presentations. In the same time as a part of c MASP was created a juvenile orchestra and a ballet company. The courses were presented
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by some emblematic figures from the Brazilian artistic scene, such as the painters Lasar Segall and Roberto Sambonet, the architects Gian Carlo Palanti and Lina Bo Bardi, the sculptor August Zamoyski, and the motion-picture technician Alberto Cavalcanti. Today the building of the Museum is one of the most attractive places in S達o Paulo. The project of the architect Lina Bo Bardi is still one of the most impressive examples for the modern decisions in the sphere of art and architecture, which is worth to be seen personally. Daniela Kapincheva
ART SPACE
Zipper gallery The Home of the Modern Art in Brazil “Zipper” is an art gallery in Sao Paulo /Brazil/ which is specialized in presenting new artists to the art market in the country. That art space is a kind of meeting point for contemporary artists, focusing on various platforms like painting, sculpture, photography, video, drawing, installations, prints and new media. Leaded by a good team that has a great experience in the Brazilian art market for decades, “Zipper” Gallery aims to support the development and to present widely the work of a group of artists, encouraging their creative spirit and the inner art potential of each of them. Fabio Cimino, the establisher and the heart of the gallery began his career in the art market in 1983 and since then till our days, being a dealer, art consultant
and gallerist, he plays a key role in the launching and the consolidating of all great names of Brazilian art. In the next issue of “Art Manager 7” we will share with you the personal revelations of Fabio Cimino about the art in Brazil and the chance to work what he loves to!
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YOUNG ART HOPES
About the perfection of the detail and the vocation of the artist RAN MANOLOV He is young, talented and decided to make art on a high global level. His calling is to paint. The artist conquers the audience with his incredible perfection and his attention to detail. His works are like examples for a textbook - hardly anyone would try to find some imperfections in them. What provokes a young man to take on the path of the Art and how difficult is that path of the artist we will learn personally from Ran Manolov.
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How long are you dealing with art? Since I can remember myself I draw. I‘m not sure what I’d drown in the beginning, but it is a great recognition for me that my grandfather is still keeping his portrait that I’ve painted when I was only 6 years old. Almost all boys dream to have more pragmatic and glamorous professions when they grow up some day. What was your dream about your professional future? I remember that I wanted to do something meaningful; and not with anything else, but with the art I am creating. When I was younger I felt terribly suppressed by Michelangelo and by his works. Probably it was happened because in these early times deep in me was awakened already my natural desire for perfection. In addition to everything said above I should mention that I grew up surrounded by artists and it is impossible for me to choose to become anything else but the artist. Is it difficult for the artist to develop and to prove himself when the corrective are his nearest people or it is a kind of motivator for him? Oh, there were terribly hard times; moments in which I was on the edge to give up from drawing and to drop everything aside. But I went on in spite of everything and everyone, probably driven by an overwhelming desire to succeed and to prove myself to my families. Of course, all these things had changed along the time. Everything is different today! I felt motivated and it helps me to unwind.
Your portfolio is impressive with the divergence and the diversity of your work. In this line of thinking what is the secret to be a good artist „on all fronts“? Thanks for the assessment. The multiple fronts of work are dangerous and quite complicated. If I have to be honest, I’ve got a big problems with my own decision what I want to do, where to focus my work and in which direction to develop my talents. In our days dispersal, even in the genres of art, is dangerous and sometimes fruitless. And about that how to become a good in your job… Interesting question! I think it‘s simple. If you learn where you belong to, what you like to do and which is the thing you are able to do in the bet way, it‘s probably already a guarantee that you will be good at doing it, and even can be perfect one 19
YOUNG ART HOPES day. If you give everything from you, the art will reward you many times. For me it is important to express my ideas through the art, never mind if it is digital or not.
I remember myself sitting on the ground and searing 30 – 40 min. at a great work of Tiepolo. They asked me to go out because they were closing.
The computer or drawing by hand is your bigger weakness? Nothing can replace the feeling of charcoal in my hand. It is a special type of contact; without any intermediaries. But working with the technique is quite intriguing too. When I start working on a personal
project, my pleasure is guaranteed. My day basically goes with a tablet in my hands. I often work even after the end of my working time and when I get home I gripe the tablet again. My work inspires me like nothing else in the world. If a person is not himself while doing his job that is a great sorrow. I am myself when I‘m working and that makes me very happy. Outside the drawing I have other interesting sides, but they are familiar only for a limited number of people. Some of your works are 3D. When and how you felt that you are kindled in three-dimensional drawing? I am working in this sphere for about a year. I think it was a natural sequel of my desire and need to grow and learn new techniques to work. I was lit by the works of other authors, by the perfection of detail that I can achieve and along with it my work to keep its integrity and still to be a pure art. Sometimes I can not achieve what my imagination draws. Most problems which arise in my work are purely technical. I still have more to learn.
Sometimes I am limited by my knowledge, and that can affect the result. But along the time it will change; every day brings new challenges, a new knowledge and a new successes. Is there an author or an artwork that are more important for you as an artist? There are several works in front of which I can spend a lot of time and still to have a need to see them again and again. I prefer not to limit myself too much, because there are so many artists and so many wonderful artworks that impress and excite. If I have to be more specific, I like much a certain portrait of Delakrua – a Female one, exposed in the Louvre. I was coming back to watch it again and again. Once when I was in the Prado Museum I remember myself sitting on the ground and searing 30 – 40 min. at a great work of Tiepolo. They asked me to go out because they were closing. Another work that I accept as an incredible one is the „David“ by Michelangelo. Even the air around it is different. He is a pure genius in the true meaning of the word. What do you think about development of the young artists in Bulgaria? Is there a realistic appraisal for the work of artists in the country at the moment? Like everything else, that has its positives and its negatives. To bet on the classical training is the right strategy. But in our days many artists do not have such training. They do not pay enough attention to their training and along the time they just exhale. It is important to be assured an adequate sequel of the training in the actual work of the artist.
In process: lion
Two of the favorite works of Ran:
„La jeune orpheline au cimetierre“ Delacroix
Technologies have to be embrace, not to be denied and trivialized. If someone wants to study something like that, almost always he is looking for opportunities abroad. There is still a lacks in Bulgaria of good specialists in that field. Regarding to the second question probably I will not say anything different. The situation is very difficult. Without Art manager to take care of the promotion and the selling of the author things can not happen in the right way. The good taste must be cultivated. Things are quite confused at the moment. Most curators are suffering from the lack of real appraisal - can not be made only installations. It is necessary the focus to be put on the genuine, the good art. What do you believe in and what you hope for as an artist? I hope that things will continue to happen here and now in their best possible way! I wish a lot of successes to the magazine!
„David“ Michelangelo
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ART DESIGN
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Piano and Violin House in Huinan
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above is the unique piano and violin shaped building in Huainan City /An Hui Province, China/. This masterpiece of design was built in 2007 by different modern materials and basically by black and transparent glass. The romantic music house was designed by the students of the architectural design faculty of Hefey University of Technology with the help of designers from the company „Huainan Fangkai Decoration Project Co“. The main part of the building is designed to look like a grand piano, on which is leaned a big violin. The building entrance is through the violin in which there is an escalator that lifts people into piano’s heart. The piano and the violin were built to a scale of 50:1. The building stands on three concrete legs and features a roof terrace shaped like the piano’s open top. Inside the building there are two concert halls, used for presentation and concerts by the music students from a local college. Here you can find also some meeting rooms, space to host weddings and other events. The local authorities use it to display various city plans and development prospects in their successful efforts to draw interest into the recently developed area. In the hot summer days you can see many tourists and local people lounging in the massive structures shadow. At night the piano and the violin light up with their beautiful fluorescent lights, which outlining the structures of the building and
shows the most romantic picture you have ever seen. Choosing to visit Huainan City you can take a walk inside the closely displayed Bagong Mountain. It is a kind of sacred place, being not only a famous tourist zone but also a
The building entrance is through the violin in which there is an escalator that lifts people into piano’s heart.
Do you like the night sights? How often you may see such beauty?
national geo-park, consisting of some peaks, historical sites, old temple, pagoda and nunnery. Some people remember the Huainan City as the place with the biggest piano and violin in the whole world; others accept is as the most romantic place for the music lovers. What will mean the city to you – it will be clear only after visiting it personally. No one knows how it will look through your eyes!... Daniela Kapincheva 23
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Art on the Book paper DANOR SHTRUZMAN
Danor Shtruzman is 33 years old. He was born in the Ramat Gan City /Israel/ and is still living in his birth town. His working history is quite interesting and rich with unexpected jobs like motorbike deliver boy, club manger, construction man, technical support representative at Internet company, site builder and of course animator and 3D painter. He had impressed the art world with his irregular decision to paint watercolors portraits on book papers. What leaded him toward this idea we will learn from his personal revelations.
What turned your attention into the art and when did it happen? At the age of 8 I used to draw with my loveable grandmother. She used to copy some old art pieces with copy paper and pencil, than she colored it. That was amazing for me. Later when I was already 27 years old I felt myself very sad after a break up with a girl I loved much. I needed to rid out of this pain inside me so I decided to paint. Along the time I make my drawing a serious dealing for me; I understood that the focus in painting somehow manage to delete the sadness and longing inside me and has the ability to make me happy. The best thing is that I understood I love making art anyway.
What inspires you to create and what is your brightest memory, connected with your work as an artist? It is a sweet story. When I was young I used to build Lego. I gave the Lego machines, houses or other things I made with all these pieces to my parents and to my dearest grandma. I used to explain them how I made my models, doing this and that. There was a nice functionality in all my models that I built with Lego. My dearest people were amazed by my creativity and my innovative way of thinking. I can say I was entirely doomed to love the joy of showing people what I’ve created. I honestly can say I love to get from them the feeling of being amazed or just feeling happy and love my 25
ART WITHOUT STANDARD creations. That is my greatest inspiration and I am sure it will never go away from me. And another secret – my other biggest inspiration is the book named “The Secret”. I’ve learned from it that the images you have near to you or in your mind will eventually get real in your life. I know that’s true and I believe it will make my art more popular and loved.
apartment at a moment of rest. Passing around, you may look at the image of my artwork if you have such in your home. You will see the book papers under the smiling watercolor image, than you will read it, may be you will like it much, but soon you will understand its not the whole book. That is my way to make your mind curios what is in the rest of the book. I give you these stuck
I decide to work on book paper because it reminds me for my grandma‘s old yellowish books.
Is there any hidden messages in your artworks and which are they? You can see lots of smiles in my artworks. I still keep deep inside me a hope that there will be time while walking in streets I will see all these people around with big wide smiles on their faces. I hope they will feel blessed; will learn some day how to believe in each other and to be free. The other message is that if you once have a lady or a man, smiling to you every day, you will be a smiling person too; it will get into your sub conscious and change you somehow. May be now I have to share a secret with you – imagine while you are walking around your 26
phrases in the middle of the image and you have to imagine whats next one. That is a nice game between me and my public. I wish all the people to keep their ability to laugh and to be curious about life. How you decide to work on book paper? What kind of books you use for your artworks? I decide to work on book paper because it reminds me for my grandma‘s old yellowish books. She used to read them over and over again because they had remembered her the youth in Poland /1920 nearly/. I actually used couple of books that I had in my
house. They were „The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari“ by Robin Sharma, „The Island“ by Victoria Hispol; than I bought some already used books like „Caravans“ by James A. Michener, „Sentinel“ by Jennifer L. Armentrout and other old American romans. In fact if someone is very curios about the written on the book papers in my art works, he can just put a sentence from the paper and to search the book in Google; at the end to find and to read it. I hope it is a nice present for him. What kind of faces you like to paint on the book papers? I prefer to paint mostly faces of happy girls at the special moment in which I recognize the pure joy - the head is up and you can see the neck and the jaw. I like women with straight lines of the jaw and beautiful curves of the eyes, with nice lips, which make straight lines. I’ve learned from my cat, that caressing each other neck to neck is her way to show she is not afraid. When we talk about the woman, I already knew that the one, who is blasting loudly with laugh, showing her neck, is a great woman, who feels free and trusts on the world around.
The teeth are between the most difficult things for drawing. We think that DEYNAR SHTRU ZMAN do not face an enormous difficulty making them.
Do you have a favourite artist and do you accept someone as your teacher in art? I like much Roi Lichtenstin, Terry Rodgers, James Roper, Jeff Koons, Steven Meisel, Mario Testino and many others. I find many great ideas and a special kind of inspiration in their works. What are your creative hopes, dreams and plans, linked with your art future? I have many dreams and much more hopes. I like to make the price of my arts growing up so I would have the chance to travel around the world, to visit and to be guest of many open galleries in Italy, Switzerland and USA. I hope soon will come the day when I will live only with the money from my art. Last years I work as 3D designer for living, but if I have to be honest I love my 3D creating too. I am planning some day to move to Roma, to live near a big convention center and to create 3D illustrations and productions for different companies. At the end I hope to live my life in love and light! Daniela Kapincheva
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The Statue of Christ the Savior in Rio de Janeiro One of the Seven Wonders of the New World
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en we mention the name of Rio de Janeiro, the first thing that comes to our mind is the flamboyant and noisy carnivals, filling the streets with life and universal joy. We imagine also all the beautiful beaches here with their crystal clear water, fine golden sand and the bright sun above. But this city is mostly known with its peculiar symbol – the Statue of Christ the Savior, with its arms stretched highly in the sky, looking like they are prepared to embrace the whole world. The
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story of this Brazilian landmark is intriguing and significant. The idea of creating such a statue, which to be placed on the top of Corcovado, was born back in 1850; but the idea was rejected because Brazilian country officially became a republic, and in 1889 with a special law the Brazilian church was separated from the national government. The idea of building the statue was revived again in 1921 when the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro took over the leadership of the project. There were organized many charity events with the only purpose to be assured the necessary funds for the statue
to be made. The ideas and the projects for the future symbol of the faith in the city were varied and divergent. Among the favorites were a huge cross and a statue of Christ with a globe in his hands. The final choice, however, fell on the figure of Christ with outstretched arms, which enjoys the guests and the residents of the city till our days. The colossus of Rio de Janeiro was created by the French sculptor Paul Landovski and the manager of the project was the engineer Heitor da Silva. The monument was made of solid reinforced concrete and was lined with a thick layer of crushed talc, highly resistant to the weather conditions here. The statue was officially opened on the 12th of October 1932 and among the official guests of the ceremony was the president of Brazil at that time. In honor of the 75 – anniversary from the opening of the statue at its foot place was built a chapel which was consecrated personally by the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro in October 2006. The chapel is still used for Christenings, weddings and other sacred sacraments, capable to gather in more than 150 people. The statue of Christ the Savior impresses with its amazing sizes. It is higher 38 meters, and with the addition of the pedestal on which it is placed, its height overcomes 40 meters. Its width is 53 meters and it weighs 1000 tons. The Keeper of Rio de Janeiro with his outstretched 30 – meters long hands was announced on the 7th of July 2007 in Lisbon for one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. A little bit earlier
THE STATUE IS HIGH 39,6 M. IT MEANS THAT IF 25 MEN WITH AVERAGE GROWTH AROUND 165 CM. STAND UP EACH ONE ON THE TOP OF THE OTHER, THE LAST ONE WILL TOUCH THE HEAD OF JESUS. CAN YOU IMAGINE IT?
in the same year the statue was struck by lightning during one of the most dreaded storms in the region for the last years. Despite the significant damages around the statue wasn’t injured seriously. Here is some useful information. Visitors can reach one of the largest by size art works in the world using car or by the rail. The view from the foot place of the statue is a fascinating and unforgettable. In the world carnival’s capital there are a bunch of things that are worth to be visited. In the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, created around 1800, you can enjoy the tropical plants and the unique floral species from different places around the world. At the National History Museum you will dive into the past of this magical place, and at the Museum of Modern Art you can enjoy the unique art works created by Brazilian artists and many worldwide popular names in art. Before leaving Rio you should not miss the Museum of Carnival, where you can even try some of those costumes, exposed here. With all their variety of shapes and colors these costumes are a kind of artworks and colorful evidence of the eternal human desire to celebrate life and to live in beauty. Daniela Kapincheva 29
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