Dimitar Kazakov

Dimitar Kazakov was born on 22 June 1933 in the village of Tsarski Izvor, Veliko Tarnovo. He graduated from the National Academy of Arts, specializing in Graphics in the class of Prof. Evtim Tomov. 

In the period 1965-1990 Dimitar Kazakov regularly participated in exhibitions organized in Sofia, Berlin, São Paulo, Ankara, Washington, Paris, Dusseldorf, Tokyo, New York, Madrid, Basel, Nim and many others. In his artistic life, he has over 40 solo exhibitions.

Dimitar Kazakov is not tempted by the three-dimensional construction of the form. Each centimeter of the canvas is populated with characters and symbols - apples, girls, birds, snakes, fountains in unusual angles seen from an unusual angle, located in an "inverted space" according to the author. In the picture there are females sitting in a spherical composition, wondering, looking at us or the sky. The woman - mother, creator, inspirational, self - taught is the main character in the paintings. The focus is on love, the earth, the nature and its miracles. According to the author, the picture is a universe, a complex world and a continuous source of life.

His works are owned, among many other collectors and museums all over the world, by the National Fund for Contemporary Art in the Louvre, France, The Pushkin Museum and the Imperial Art Collection in Tokyo.

The artist creates painting, graphics, drawings, ceramics and wood sculpture. He is one of the authors who make the appearance of the modern Bulgarian plastic culture and present it outside the borders of Bulgaria. Kazakov realizes the meaning and value of the donor gesture. In 1985, together with his brother Nikola Kazakov, he donated more than 500 paintings, graphics, watercolors, wood and ceramics to a the restored  school Slaveykov in Tryavna, now Specialized Museum for Carving and Painting. Sixteen paintings of these are included in the current exposure. In 1988 Dimitar Kazakov donated one hundred and eighty-five paintings and drawings and ninety-five ceramic tiles to the architectural and historical reserve "Varosha" in Lovech, Bulgaria. In 2008, this ceramic collection was presented at the National Gallery.