Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dobri spent his childhood from 6 to 13 years in Havana, Cuba, where my father was working as a musician in the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra. He started drawing and painting from about the age of six. Later upon returning to Bulgaria in 1976 he decided to study and make a career as an artist and graphic designer. He nowadays live with his wife on the outskirts of Hamburg, Germany.
Artist statement:
Sharing my quest for a coherent perception of the modern world, with many questions, and very rarely finite answers.
Pen and ink drawing was always of primary importance for me, because of the straight ahead, unambiguous honesty of the black lines, the very limited and demanding choice of techniques and precision involved. It is this clarity and „finality“ of the stroke, which fascinates, but also calls and requires from us.
Furthermore, a penchant for contextual and formal contrasts is characteristic of my work, not only black versus white, the tactile versus the two dimensional (especially in my acrylic panting), but also, a richness of detail versus the Unnamed, precise positioning versus ambiguity, asceticism versus sensuality, Faith versus consumerism / atheism. Art is for me a perpetual dialogue between our Self and the surrounding Reality (which nowadays takes many sometimes confusing or frightening shapes).
Finally, my creative output refuses to submit stylistically to any narrowly bound art category or current.
Stylistically my work ranges from hyper realistic to nonfigurative / abstract, depending on the mood I am in. In this sense, there are always many directions in which my ideas and experiments go ... In my drawings, I have been influenced by the virtuoso work of artists like Albrecht Dürer, Goya and others, in my acrylic work, I was very much in love with the work and color palette of Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
ONE MAN SHOWS
1985 Theater Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
1988 Galeria Ruski 12, Sofia, Bulgaria
1988 City Gallery Sopot, Poland
1992 Galerie Fabrik 147, Loiter Au
1995 Diakonissenanstalt, Flensburg
1996 Galerie Werner Gutzeit, Delve
1996 Mizner Park Galerie, Berlin
1997 Galerie Fulvio Pinna, Berlin
1997 Mizner Park Galerie, Berlin
1997 Galerie der Akademie Sankelmark, Flensburg
2005 Galerie Museumsinsel, Heide
2018 Galerie Meldorf. Meldorf (Germany)
2021 The OtherArtFair Virtual Editions / Saatchi Art
2022 „I“ The world revolves around ME / 01. 2022 / M.A.D.S. Gallery
Adam & Eva revisited
Size 40cmX47cm
Virtue versus Sin. Duality. The Earthly and the Divine juxtaposed. I was thinking of a new version of Durer’s Adam & Eve, according to modern cliches, as an ironic commentary on modern conventions and expectations. The original pen & ink drawing is an perfect copy of Durer’s original etching.
Limited Editions of 76 high end Fine Art Giclée Prints, printed in Germany with museum grade, archival pigment inks on the finest acid free handmade papers. Available in eight colors: berry, lila, mint, mandarine, fog gray, dark indigo blue, dark olive green and rusty red. Signed, numbered and stamped by the artist.
Not a Magritte
Size 50cmX56cm
An ironic interpretation of a famous work. The pain and the ambiguity in the longing for and pursuit of beauty.
Based on a Leonardo portrait, paintings from Leonardo are often an inspiration for my drawings.
Angel
Size 56cmX74cm
A symbolic hommage to womanhood. I was inspired by a youthful love of mine, the angel like beauty of a young woman.
Acrylic/ mixed media technique painting on handmade 850 g/m² acid free paper, produced by the French paper mill ARCHES® since 1492.
Also available as limited editions of high end Fine Art Giclée Prints (56 X 74 cm), printed in Germany with museum grade, archival pigment inks on the finest acid free handmade papers. Signed, stamped, and numbered by the artist.
Maria II
Size 56cmX76cm
A symbolic hommage to giving birth, womanhood and fertility.
Acrylic/ mixed media technique painting on handmade 850 g/m² acid free paper, produced by the French paper mill ARCHES® since 1492.
Also available as limited editions of high end Fine Art Giclée Prints (56 X 74 cm), printed in Germany with museum grade, archival pigment inks on the finest acid free handmade papers. Signed, stamped, and numbered by the artist.