Ivan Russev

CREATIVE BIOGRAPHY

Artist Ivan Rusev was born in 1973 in Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria. In 1992, he graduated from the National Higher School of Plastic Arts and Design. Acad. Dechko Uzunov - Kazanlak with a degree in industrial design. In 1999 he graduated from the National Academy of Arts "Nikolai Pavlovich" with a degree in Industrial Design and Pedagogy of Fine Arts. Ivan Rusev works in the style of realistic impressionism and post-impressionism. For his scenes, emotions and experiences, he draws inspiration mainly from nature and real life. Ivan Rusev constantly travels around Bulgaria and Europe and recreates on canvas the characters and sights with which life met him. Ivan Rusev is a famous plein air.

CRITICISM ABOUT IVAN RUSEV

“Ivan Rusev is a young, competent and talented artist. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn't want to be fashionable and doesn't care if it's interesting. He does not use artistic tricks to fit in with a new conceptual trend. He strives to be a true artist who honestly and respectfully expresses himself through the talent given to him. Therefore, he is not afraid to create in the post-impressionist style, and in some works to achieve certain expressive inventions. He is not ashamed of everyday life accused of being a fan of retro style, life as a late impressionist. He is only interested in creating valuable works, which makes him worthy."

Dimitar Indjov - gallery owner, collector and expert appraiser of works of art

“With his paintings, Ivan Rusev takes us back in time, around the 30s of the last century, to one of the most curious, most interesting and purest stages of Bulgarian art, in the time of Nikolai Tanev, when we felt the beauty of French impressionism in Bulgaria. Ivan Rusev is one of those artists who are rare in our time, because time suggests a more serious look at things, more philosophy, more drama, more serious messages, while Ivan, as artists of the late nineteenth, early twentieth century, enjoys everyday life. Therefore, he makes us empathize with this everyday life, that is, he takes us back to those beautiful moments that are constantly happening around us, to these beautiful landscapes that are constantly around us, but we seem to no longer have feelings to notice them, or we have too serious excuses to notice ... Ivan is the type of artist who brings us back to the beauty of the world. At the moment, and in order to see life as a series of beautiful moments that leave and do not return, artists like him seek to capture them in order to make them available to us - the audience. His paintings have an incredible freshness that attracts, because light always brings optimism, and there is a lot of light here. A very important quality is the transfer of pleasure from everyday moments. Finding beauty, feeling the spirit of repetitive activities such as walking on the beach, reading books, playing a musical instrument is Ivan Rusev's trademark."

Krasimir Linkov - art critic and director of the City Art Gallery - Plovdiv

“Ivan Rusev has completed over thirty participations, some of which are held in different European countries. These exhibitions are not only a recognition of his talent, but also an opportunity to satisfy his other passion - to travel and collect impressions from museums, people around the world. Ivan Rusev's paintings have a clear impressionistic beginning, each of his works breathes the air of reality, freedom, vitality and positivism and is characterized by a bold turn to different genres - still lifes, landscapes, nude bodies, urban motives. He adores such great talents as Van Gogh and Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master, in his work Ivan Rusev never achieves an intuitive imitation or external dependence on these great artists, he always develops in his own direction, inspired by their path into art."

Irina Kolbasova - art critic and curator at the Vidima gallery, Sevlievo, Bulgaria

“If I have a favorite young author, this is Ivan Rusev. I live with him, and someone will ask themselves how and why. Because my house is almost full of his paintings. I watch them every day, and when I see them, I remember Ivan. He grew up as an artist before my eyes, and at today's "100 Exhibition" I see that he has become even better. I wish him to be alive and well, because I am convinced that he will be a factor in the Bulgarian fine arts."

Rusi Kurtlakov - gallery owner, collector and artist

“Meeting Ivan Rusev's painting is a short rest, rest from a hectic, confused, dynamic day and recharging the senses with a sunny feeling. Rich color palette, impressive play of light, immediacy of drawing are the characteristics of the artist Rusev. These are truly wonderful moments, alternating memories of a bright summer, warm sea, fields and sky, bright autumn, human figures and faces - all this is palpably organic and sincere. The flashing light is the main character of Ivan Rusev's color impressions. It unites works into one whole and infects with warm and bright energy on cold winter days."

Poly Bankova - Maneva, Artur Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

CREATIVE BIOGRAPHY:

2008 Personal exhibition - Gallery "Fanita" - Sofia, Bulgaria

2009 Personal exhibition - Bogoridi Gallery - Burgas, Bulgaria

2009 Personal exhibition - Gallery "Hermes" - Sofia, Bulgaria

2010 "France in painting", joint exhibition - Alliance Francaise - Burgas, Bulgaria

2010 General Exhibition "Sea Impressions" - Gallery "Breeze" - Burgas, Bulgaria

2010 Personal exhibition - Burgas Gallery - Burgas, Bulgaria

2010 Festival de Touquet - Touquet, France

2010 International Biennale of Painters and Sculptors - Split, Croatia

2010 National Biennale for Artists and Sculptors "Friends of the Sea" - Burgas, Bulgaria

2010 General exhibition "For animals with love", Gallery "Art Muse" - Sofia, Bulgaria

2010 V National Biennale of Small Forms - Pleven, Bulgaria

2010 Personal exhibition "Positive!" - RB "Peyo Yavorov" - Burgas, Bulgaria

2010 Christmas General Exhibition - Burgas "Gallery - Burgas", Bulgaria

2011 Personal exhibition - Pirones Gallery - Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2011 Personal exhibition - gallery "La Source des Arts" - Nancy, France

2011 International art competition "Straffe Hendrik Art Contest" - Bruges, Belgium

2011 Festival de Touquet - Touquet, France

2011 Personal exhibition - gallery "Burgas" - Burgas, Bulgaria

2011 Christmas General Exhibition - Gallery "Burgas" - Burgas, Bulgaria

2012 General Exhibition "UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the Church" - Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art - New York, USA

2012 Finalist for a joint exhibition - Galerie Den Andel, The Netherlands

2012 Personal exhibition - gallery "Burgas" - Burgas, Bulgaria

2012 Personal exhibition - Gallery "Christian de Cooper" - Brussels, Belgium

2012 Salon of young talents and professionals of fine arts "ARBUST" - Mantes-la-Joly, France

2012 General Exhibition - Public Center "Prosveta 1888" - Pomorie, Bulgaria

2012 Joint exhibition with Nencho Rusev - Public Center "Prosveta 1888" - Pomorie, Bulgaria

2012 General exhibition "In the beginning was drawing II" - SRN "St. George" - Pomorie, Bulgaria

2012 General Exhibition "Autumn in Nessebar" - Art Studio "Yanko Vasiliev" - Nessebar, Bulgaria

2012 Personal exhibition of the festival "Art idea, artistic alley" - Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, gallery "Pleiades"

2012 General Christmas exhibition, "Burgas" Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria

2013 Personal exhibition, Vidima Gallery, Sevlievo, Bulgaria

2013 Personal exhibition, Gallery "Orchids", Karlovo, Bulgaria

2013 "EXHIBITION 100", in support of the city of Burgas for the European Capital of Culture 2019, Gallery "Burgas", Burgas, Bulgaria

2013 Personal exhibition of reproductions "Exhibition 100" in the shopping center Burgas, Burgas, Bulgaria

2013 General exhibition "In the beginning was drawing III" - Public Center "Prosveta 1888" - Pomorie, Bulgaria

2013 Personal exhibition "Winter mirages" - Gallery "Artur", Sofia, Bulgaria

2013 Autumn Cultural Salons "Grand Hotel Pomorie", Pomorie, Bulgaria

2014 Exhibition from the fund "Grand Hotel Pomorie" in the "Art Center Pleven", Pleven, Bulgaria

2014 Spring cultural salons "Grand Hotel - Pomorie", Pomorie, Bulgaria

2014 General exhibition "Painting, graphics, sculpture" in the "Art Center Pleven", Pleven, Bulgaria

2014 General exhibition in the gallery "Burgas", Burgas, Bulgaria

2014 General exhibition at the "Zheravna Art Gallery", Bulgaria

2014 Personal exhibition in Gruisan - France

2014 Salon of young talents and professionals of fine arts "ARBUST" - Mantes-la-Joly, France

2014 General Christmas exhibition at the "Burgas" gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria

2014 Joint Christmas exhibition in the gallery "Europe", Sofia, Bulgaria

2015 General exhibition at the Zagreb Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2015 Personal exhibition "Pieces of Light" at the Zagreb Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2016 Personal exhibition at the Burgas Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria

2016 Personal exhibition at the Zagreb Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2016 Personal exhibition in the gallery "Ikar", Sofia, Bulgaria

PLENAIRS

2007 Vienna, Austria

2008 Sofia, Bulgaria

2008 Rodopi, Bulgaria

2008 Nessebar, Bulgaria

2009 about. Thassos - Greece

2009 Rhodope, Bulgaria

2009 Sozopol, Bulgaria

2010 Sozopol, Bulgaria

2010 about. Sol, Croatia

2011 Nancy, France

2011 Sozopol, Bulgaria

2012 Kiten, Bulgaria

2013 "The World is the Sea", organized by the Municipality of Pomorie, Bulgaria

2013 "Art without Borders" - Pomorie, Nessebar, Bulgaria

2016 organized by PG "Assen and Iliya Peykovi", Sevlievo, Bulgaria

2017 organized by PG "Hristo Tsokev", Gabrovo, Bulgaria

AWARDS

2013 Special ArtVisa award and a diploma for excellence from Nikolai Manev

2013 National Prize for the Artist of the Year "Knight of the Brush", established by the Art Center "Orchid", Karlovo, Bulgaria

2013 Award "Keeper of Traditions" in the category "Art" within the framework of the national initiative "Keeper of Traditions" established by the Association for the Development of Decorative and Applied Arts