петък, 15 април 2011 г.

Contempo 4 - weekend for contemporary art, Varna, Bulgaria 15-17 april 2011


Contempo 4 - weekend for contemporary art, Varna, Bulgaria 15-17 april 2011 Contempo is a short term art event held in Varna in private galleries, public culture institutions and alternative places and it presents art works in field of contemporary arts made basically from artists under 35. Out of age limits are special invited guests and some co-curators projects. The main goal of contempo- weekend is to present in dynamic form the picture of contemporary art tendencies and new media language, also we like to give opportunity to audience to be in time. Contempo is an idea of Raya Georgieva /1978 - 2009/.She is the young artist from Varna who passed away in 2009 the foundation based in honor of her name in 2010 is main organizer of contempo. The partners are the association for culture management Sea Blue, young informal group Amorfa, Bulart gallery, radio Varna and culture journalists Boryana Todorova /Narodno delo newspaper/,Elena Vladova / urban mag/ and Antonya Yovcheva /TV Cherno more/. Curator of contempo is Dora Doncheva- Bulart. For this 3 art days have more of 20 openings, presentations, music sets and multimedia projects. The focus of contempo is in creative researches of young art generation and the problems of present men - urbanization, identification, globalization, save of nature, transexuality, inner human world etc. Installation, video art, performance, experimental photography, painting, sculpture, street art etc are just a part of tools for this art dialogue and we all are very open for surprises. In past three editions of contempo we had all most of 10 000 people visitors and we had presented more of 60 art projects - solo and under curatorial frames, made by artists from Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, Germany, France, Canada, Poland etc. We want to create also a date base for young artists -local and international and contempo -weekend to be a platform for exchange of artistic energy and ideas. Also we give good possibilities for curators, gallerists and culture field professionals experts to follow the wind and to be in time about new names in the art scene . Contempo is no commercial forum. You can see the past editions in : www.contempo2010.blogspot.com

четвъртък, 10 март 2011 г.

Various traditional ways of hand papermaking


Washi is the Japanese word for the traditional papers made from the long inner fibres of three plants, wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper.


Saa Papermaking


Handmade Paper Mill in central Europe


The old working machine for manufacturing paper.
Museum of crafts in Hagen, Germany.

сряда, 3 ноември 2010 г.

петък, 28 май 2010 г.

събота, 17 април 2010 г.

The workshop of the Paper and Print Together Project, April 2010








The serial workshop of the Paper and Print Together Project was conducted in the week from 12 until 16 April together with students in the fourth course in graphic arts at the Saints Kiril and Methodius Univercity in Veliko Tarnovo.

понеделник, 18 януари 2010 г.

AMATERAS Annual Paper Art Exhibition 2010

The Art Studio AMATERAS in Sofia, Bulgaria, in partnership with CARTASIA, Italy, has the pleasure to launch series of international paper art events, first in Bulgaria and Italy, and afterwards in other countries.

After its successful first edition, showing 150 paper art works from 17 countries, the Art Studio AMATERAS has pleasure to announce this year’s exhibition/competition for paper art in 2D and 3D, created by artists from all over the world without restrictions of techniques, styles or materials. This exhibition is for small paper works (2D - no larger than A4 size and 3D no bigger than 15/15/20cm) and will be held from June 4 – July 4, 2009 at Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria. An international jury of selection will award cash prizes for AMATERAS - Best of Show Award, Young Artist Award, Innovation Award and Bulgarian Artist Award. Deadline for entries is March 31, 2010.

For more information and entry forms please see our website: www.amateras.eu

Or contact Daniela Todorova at: paperart@amateras.eu

четвъртък, 13 август 2009 г.

петък, 17 юли 2009 г.