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Georgi Shtarbev

1972     Geboren in Plovdiv, Bulgarien

1997     Mitglied des Verbandes der Plovdiv Künstler

2000     Studiert Malerei zwischen 2000-2004 in Italien in The National Academy

            of Fine Art (Accademie  di   Belle Arti) in Rom, Italien in der Klasse

            von Prof. Delli Santi Francesco

2007     Mitglied des Verbandes der Bulgarischen Kunstmaler

            Wohnt und arbeitet in Plovdiv und Sofia, Bulgarien

Auszeichnungen

2007     Prize for painting of the Society of Plovdiv Artists

            and the Municipality Plovdiv, Bulgarien

Georgi Shtarbev be longs to the generation of artists who had the heavy lot of starting their artistic quest in the chaos of the early 90s. His paintings had personal evolution that includes many transformations over the years but the distinct interest in the transitional forms between abstract and figural is evident. This extensive plastic problem takes a central place in his works especially after his academic education in the National Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, 2000 – 2004. 

The paintings of Georgi Shtarbev are easily recognizable with their rich artistic texture, achieved through various techniques such impasto, scratching, rubbing, all of which are typically use for plastic structuring of the canvas surface. This artistic approach aims to underline the materiality of the work, to suggest the sensation that the process of its creation is present in its final completeness. At the same time, the accent on the complex textural surface bears both visual and purely tactile sensation through which the canvas is perceived not only as an abstract flat surface but also as a meaningful component of the painting. Each element of his works – the structural solution; the complex texture; the monochromic or the distinctive “colorful” coloration; the materiality of the artistic texture – has an individual, powerful expressiveness. That is the one of the reasons why the paintings of Georgi Shtarbev have this peculiar monumental impact, emphasized also by the idea of plurality and rhythm, evident in each canvas, related to the wholeness of the exposition. The colorful harmonies in his paintings are usually executed in warm, organic, earthy tonality and are sometimes emphasized in a separate area through dissonance compositions.