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Art4Diplomacy at the Italian Embassy in Sofia

Art4Diplomacy at the Italian Embassy in Sofia

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Where

Two artworks are located in front of the Italian Embassy in Sofia (Ulitsa Shipka, 2) and they consist of two different pieces realized by Stavros Avgoustides and Victoria Petrova to decorate an electric box.

The Artists

Stavros Avgoustides

art1Stavros Avgoustides is a Cypriot career diplomat and a self-taught contemporary artist. Born in Cyprus and raised in Greece, he draws inspiration from his professional travels and multicultural experiences. Art for Stavros Avgoustides is an escape; a way of expressing his inner world; absorbing new landscapes and faces, through pigment and drawing, as an internal landscaping, arranging the world as an own fantastic experience.

https://www.facebook.com/StavrosAvgoustidesArt/

 Victoria Petrova

art2Victoria Petrova has studied at the National Academy of Art in Sofia and has worked at Svetlin Roussev’s atelier. She has participated in a Painting and Drawing Summer Course “Making your Mark” in Aero, Denmark. She had exhibitions in Sofia and solo exhibition in Germany.

Her last solo exhibition was in Gallery 2.0 in 2016 with the art project Symbiosis.

 

 

 

 

The Artworks

“Thinkers & Philosophers” (Stavros Avgoustides)

“Thinkers and Philosophers” it’s a doodle-art created by Stavros Avgoustides using acrylic markers on canvas. It all begun as part of a project illustrating a different way of presenting portraits of Greek philosophers. The artist played around the portrait of Thales of Miletus with awkward shapes, figures and lines, creating new faces of his own “thinkers”.

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150×120 canvas, acrylic markers

“Function=Energy” (Victoria Petrova)

The painting “Function=Energy” is part of an art project named Symbiosis.

It is an attempt to revеаl the aesthetics hidden in the transformation of the function into form.

The “Symbiosis” project is an attempt to touch this process of creation, collection and maturation of one form. The elements are intertwining and start living in the community. It is already, to a large extent, one new world, in which if we look, we can find the hidden harmony, dictating overall action.

 

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120×100, acrylic paint on canvas

Both artworks have been photographed with professional photo equipment, resized and processed according to the requirements for high quality digital print on folio. The recommended folio is polymer type for external use with additional cover (laminated). The life expectancy of a properly installed print without any color shift is between 5 and 10 years.

The installation of the folio requires special preparation of the surface which includes a base/gesso and a layer of metal paint.

 

The Initiative

The initiative “Art4Diplomacy” was inspired by the many examples of street art (in particular electric box artworks) already present in Sofia.

It has been inaugurated on July, 17 at the presence of the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova and is intended to be a contribution by the diplomatic community to the beauty of Sofia.

The Italian ambassador Stefano Baldi and the Cypriot ambassador Stavros Avgoustides, the two promoters of the event, hope to see other embassies follow this example, through the creation of original artworks, in order to pay homage to the beautiful Capital of Bulgaria.