Gantcho Boyadjiev
was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1971, and since his early
childhood has developed his passion for painting, which later
evolved into a professional occupation. At the age of 10 he
bagan taking part in courses and lessons aiming to improve his
drawing skills and painting techniques, specializing in
Oil-colour-painting on different materials, in particular on
canvas. This later developed into his own original style. Until
his full age he attended various workshops, artistic circles and
painting competitions, winning a number of prizes.
His first international experience was in Paris
and Aix-en-provence (France), where he lived in 1990-1991. Studying
at the institute for foreign students (Aix-en-Provence) and
learning from the “Paul Cezanne“ art festival, contributed a lot to
form his artistic culture, art vision and style. Between 1991 and
2009 Gantcho Boyadjiev happened to travel a lot and had the
possibility to visit different countries and to get in touch with
enormously different cultures. Just to mention UK, France, Spain,
Canada, USA, Switzerland, Poland, Chech Republic, the Netherlands,
Russia, South Korea, Austria, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Israel,
Thailand, etc. Staying for long periods of time in cities like
London, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris, Munich,
Barcelona, Madrid, Lugano, Zurich, Amsterdam, etc. Brougth to a lot
of new artistic experiences, as well as to a lot of changes in his
personal painting style.
In 1995 Gantcho Boyadjiev moved to Italy and has
been a permanent resident in Milan ever since. Mainly in Italy he
developed his style and activity. For the last 15 years he has taken
part in many art exhibitions, cultural events and art fairs. He has
won a number of contests and prizes amoung which First Prize in 1997
and second prize in 1998 at the prestigious art contest “Citta di
San Giuliano Milanese“ as well as the prize for “Original style“,
together with a number of diplomas, cups and medals. He has had
various cooperations with a number of art galleries in diferent
Italian cities.
In 2009 Unicredit -
BulBank decided to inaugurate their brand new office for Eastern
Europe in Sofia with Gantcho Boyadjiev´s first personal exhibition
in Bulgaria. The exhibition remains open to public in the period 21
July - 30 September and has a large media coverage in the national
newspapers and Bulgarian National TV. In the month of October 2009
Gantcho Boyadjiev inaugurated his second personal exhibition in “Gammallery“- one of the leading art galleries in Bulgaria, which at
present represents him in the country.
Gantcho´s style is characterized by a well
chosen combination of symbols and colours that form an obsessive
repetition of elements and details to fill up the entire space on
the canvas. His approach to painting manages to melt together the
classical base of oil colours with an innovative execution, that
extends almost to the limit of the contemporary poster or even to
the cartoons. The general impression of his paintings is usually
enigmatic, evoking various interpretations and associations!
Some of his oil- paintings and painted
objects are now part of private collections in Rome, Milan,
Florence, London, Amsterdam, Sofia, New York and Los Angeles.