Lyuben Stoew

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Ljuben Stoew (actually written Ljuben Stoev , Bulgarian Любен Стоев ; born January 18, 1939 in Sofia , Bulgaria ; † December 11, 2016 ibid) was a Bulgarian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Stoew is the son of the dentist Elena Stoewa, who in the 1930s worked alongside her medical studies in the group around Georgi Dimitrov in Germany and the forester, hunter and partisan Stefan Stoew.

From 1957 Stoew attended the Sofia School of Fine Arts. In 1963 he traveled to the GDR and continued his studies in painting and graphics at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK) with Lea Grundig, whose master class he became. Through them he was influenced by the artists of the 1920s such as Otto Dix , George Grosz and Frans Masereel . He met Otto Dix while still alive in Dresden and acquired some of his work. In 1967 he returned to Sofia with a diploma from the HfBK Dresden. Since the 1970s, Ljuben Stoew has been making sea voyages mostly with Bulgarian merchant ships, which have taken him almost all over the world. On these expeditions he documented life on board and in the countries he visited, in which he mostly showed exhibitions. In 2004 he founded the art project “Transformazija” with the Austrian director Ulli Gladik and the Swiss photographer Doris Peter, in the context of which exhibition projects were realized in Germany, Austria and Bulgaria. Lyuben Stoew lived and worked in Sofia.

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Graphic cycles

Between 1970 and 1995 Ljuben Stoew worked on his "graphic cycles", which include black-and-white and colored woodcuts, hand drawings and lithographs:

  • 1970 "The City" cycle
  • 1974 to 1975 cycles "Algeria", "Algiers", "Sahara" and "Kabilien"
  • 1977 to 1987 cycle "Sailors and Third World"
  • 1984 to 1995 "Underground" cycle from the mines in Pernik (Bulgaria) and Bergkamen and Gelsenkirchen (Germany)

Cycles from 1994

In the cycles from 1994 onwards, Ljuben Stoew dealt with the changes in living conditions in Bulgaria since 1989.

1990 to 2002 "The Bulgarian Market Economy"

The cycle "The Bulgarian Market Economy" includes large-format compositions, collages and three-dimensional installations:

  • “Small business” begging Romni through a car window
  • "Psychiatry - closed department" Drawings, tempera paintings and collages on canvas that Ljuben Stoew made in a psychiatric hospital
  • "Earned old age - retirement home" Collages and drawings that were created in a retirement home
  • "Small business" seller of Chinese linen, dishes, batteries, etc.
  • “Beautiful Sofia - Krassiva Sofia” painting of a panel building facade
  • "Block 203" Typical entrance to a Sofia building at the end of the 20th century.
  • “Middle class” Typical Sofia grocer after the fall of the Wall in the basement of a residential building with a small sales opening facing the street
  • "8th. March “ Portrait of an old woman who sells flowers, behind billboards (advertising for bodybuilding, slimming)
  • "Pretzel seller" Portrait of a pretzel seller, behind it an election poster for the presidential elections with the inscription: Think that you have dignity!
  • "Free press" newsstand with newspapers, magazines, yellow press with headlines such as gas, blood, drugs etc.
  • “Christmas charity cocktail” Group portrait of the Bulgarian elite surrounded by delicacies, garlands and a transparent box with some money. This work is based on a press release about a charity event in the best hotel in Sofia, where only € 515 was donated for children's cancer aid. The press release is part of the installation.
  • “Zres transformazija kam vseobschto blagodenstvie” (through transformation to general prosperity) video, 8 min, which was created in collaboration with Ljuben Stoew's brother, the Bulgarian director and Oberhausen Prize winner Jacky Stoew. This exhibition was also shown in the Bulgarian Parliament in 2003 and opened by Johny Penkov with the words: "Since the parliamentarians have little time and constantly have to attend meetings and gatherings, Lyuben Stoev came to them with his exhibition." This cycle was in the Group exhibition series Transformazija to see.

2005 to 2006 "The Soup Kitchen"

In 2005 Ljuben Stoev visited a soup kitchen in Sofia many times and made drawings, paintings and installations based on this kitchen. The works were exhibited in the Sofia City Gallery from December 2005 to January 2006 and most of the works were then auctioned. 100% of the proceeds were used to finance the soup kitchen. Here, too, the artist used advertising posters and texts, a life-size picture of a visitor to the kitchen, for example, carries a plastic bag with the inscription "Live in color", or behind the picture of a visitor there is an election poster with the inscription "the people with courage are in the majority" .

2007 to 2015 cycle "The Outsider"

The line of songs by Bertolt Brecht “and you only see those in the light, you can't see those in the dark” from the Threepenny Opera inspired Ljuben Stoew for his cycle “The Outsider”. The cycle includes large-scale multimedia installations, but also drawings and collages.

Installations:

  • "Expectation" garbage collector with blue work suit in a mountain of rubbish, behind it a Sofia landscape with the Vitosha mountains
  • "Music for the soul" street musician with harmonica, you can hear an audio recording of pieces of music played by the artist
  • “Breathe” glue-sniffing boy, the title is an allusion to a documentary about air pollution that sparked the first public protests in Bulgaria after the fall of the Wall
  • "Man in a wheelchair" begging man in a wheelchair, behind a poster that advertises rental safes
  • "The Divorced Man's Evening" a man sits with schnapps and salad (the typical Bulgarian evening meal) in front of the television, zaps through the programs. B. a program of the nationalist party Ataka, then sport.
  • “TV Romantika”   an old woman knitting in front of her television set, behind it the photo of her sons working in Spain who send 50 euros a month, an audio recording of 125 episodes of telenovelas is played on the television set.
  • "The boss drinks his cafe" two bodyguards behind a seated businessman
  • “Viennese Ball in Sofia” the Bulgarian elite dances at the ball in Sofia, in front of which stands a new rich with a beauty that Lyuben Stoew designed based on the model of the Russian tennis player Marija Sharapova .

2008 to 2016 cycle "The Other City"

This cycle includes acrylic and pastel paintings on canvas, but also three-dimensional installations and shows cityscapes that Ljuben Stoew made over many years, inspired by his hometown Sofia.

Exhibitions

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ vlasti.bg: Почина художникът Любен Стоев. In: vlasti.bg. Retrieved January 18, 2017 (Bulgarian).
  2. ↑ AUGUSTIN, You can't see those in the dark - The Bulgarian Lyuben Stoev shows no blooming landscapes ( [1] ).
  3. ↑ cultural broadcasting archive ( [2] ).
  4. ↑ http://www.segabg.com/article.php?id=58572
  5. ↑ Luben Stoev. Social Services Kitchen . In: kunstaspekte.de . ( kunstaspekte.de [accessed on January 18, 2017]).
  6. ↑ http://www.duma.bg/node/10216
  7. ↑ Luben Stoev. Social Services Kitchen
  8. ↑ http://www.dnevnik.bg/razvlechenie/2007/02/13/311529_salon_na_otrechenite/
  9. ↑ https://lifestyle.bg/ Palette/izlozhba-de-profundis-na-lyuben- stoev.html
  10. ↑ http://chancexpress.blogspot.co.at/2011_02_13_archive.html
  11. ↑ i-creativ studio: ЛЮБЕН СТОЕВ / Съюз на Българските Художници. In: www.sbhart.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Художникът Любен Стоев: Другите откриват с купон, а ние и закриваме така! (ВИДЕО / СНИМКИ) - БЛИЦ - Новини от България и света . In: Blitz.bg . ( blitz.bg [accessed January 18, 2017]).
  13. ^ Robert Bosch Foundation , Ulli Gladik ( [3] ).
personal data
SURNAME Stoew, Ljuben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoev, Ljuben (real name); Стоев, Любен (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2016
Place of death Sofia , Bulgaria