Program of The Old School residency – Gorna Lipnitsa village 21 – 28 August 2011
21.08.2011 /Sunday/ 10.30 a.m. Opening of The Art Residence. Presentation of the workspace in “The Old School” and the working materials. Presenting the sights and landmarks in Gorna Lipnitsa. 22.08.2011 /Monday/ 18.30 to 20.30 p.m. Walk in...
Participants in The Old School residency, 2011: Marisa Dipaola (USA) – visual arts and installations
I have recently moved north, into the Green Mountains of southern Vermont, where globalization and capitalization have less effect on my daily existence. I am a nomadic sculptor and installation artist, creating site-specific sculptures from found materials. My artwork...
Participants in The Old School residency, 2011: Biserka Petrovic (Serbia) – painting
“I’m currently teaching painting at Accademia del Giglio and living between Lazarevac-Srbija and Florence-Italy. Unconsciously and consciously always occupied with two main themes that for me are under the same category, which is the nature of existence, I remain...
Participants in The Old School residency, 2011: Chrisitne Kuhn (USA) – painting
“My most recent artwork is process-oriented. It begins with the assembly of items of interest–things which attract me from an aesthetic viewpoint or things which catch my fancy or make me smile. These items generally fall into a few...
Participants in The Old School residency, 2011: Arch. Svetla Tsoneva (Bulgaria) – architecture
She is responsible for design and construction of residential buildings, hotels, resorts guest houses, warehouses and office buildings. She worked as a senior expert / architect / in the “Regional Urban Development” in Veliko Tarnovo. Except in the field...
Participants in The Old School residency, 2011: Nikolai Bozhinov (Bulgaria) – wood sculpture
He is an artist with variety of interests in the field of art. He expresses the idea of ecological way of life in his works. His latest enthusiasm is old building technologies – by using natural materials – hedge,...
Participants in The Old School residence, 2011: Irene Anton (Germany) – Visual Arts and installations
“The variety of my work consists in design, painting, stained glass, object, installation and landart. In my recent work I use to create in- and outdoor installations and objects for fields, forests and lakes, mostly playing with the power...
Participants in The Old School residence, 2011: Veneta Zaharieva (Bulgaria) – photography, Ivan Manchev (Bulgaria) – photography
Veneta Zaharieva (Bulgaria), Photography As a photographer she handles a variety of techniques, including so-called precious photographic process techniques – cyanotype, van dyke, gum arabic and etc. They assist to a different photographic expression and sound approaching it more to drawing...