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"Samodiva", 1981
Kancho Tsanev (1934-2011)
Technique, material: woodcarving, walnut
Dimensions: 275/240/30 cm.
Prof. Kancho Denchev Tsanev studied at the Technical School of Woodcarving and Interior Architecture in Tryavna in the class of one of the last Renaissance masters - Sava Antonov.
He graduated in woodcarving at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia under Prof. Asen Vassilev.
He was a full-time lecturer at the National Academy of Arts, after which he became the head of the Carving Department, and in 1987 he became the dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts. He works in the field of decorative-monumental woodcarving and wood plastic.
He is among the most significant representatives of Bulgarian woodcarving from the second half of the 20th century. Tsanev not only continues the traditions of the Tryavna woodcarving school, whose achievements he builds on, but also develops them and enriches them with new philosophical content.
He is a distinctive and original artist, whose work features themes and motifs from the Bulgarian artistic heritage. The author does not copy the native tradition, but stylistically transforms it and fits it into the spirit of contemporary concepts of art. For him, folk art remained not an object for self-serving experiments, but a constant source of inspiration and worship.
In the woodcarving "Samodiva" Tsanev builds the composition as a totem, interweaving the decorative manner.
In the work there is one main figure in the center, which is stylized. The sculpture is symbolically built, combining numerous figures with decorative floral ornaments.
The work refers to folk beliefs.
Floor 6
Dimensions: 275/240/30 cm.
Prof. Kancho Denchev Tsanev studied at the Technical School of Woodcarving and Interior Architecture in Tryavna in the class of one of the last Renaissance masters - Sava Antonov.
He graduated in woodcarving at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia under Prof. Asen Vassilev.
He was a full-time lecturer at the National Academy of Arts, after which he became the head of the Carving Department, and in 1987 he became the dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts. He works in the field of decorative-monumental woodcarving and wood plastic.
He is among the most significant representatives of Bulgarian woodcarving from the second half of the 20th century. Tsanev not only continues the traditions of the Tryavna woodcarving school, whose achievements he builds on, but also develops them and enriches them with new philosophical content.
He is a distinctive and original artist, whose work features themes and motifs from the Bulgarian artistic heritage. The author does not copy the native tradition, but stylistically transforms it and fits it into the spirit of contemporary concepts of art. For him, folk art remained not an object for self-serving experiments, but a constant source of inspiration and worship.
In the woodcarving "Samodiva" Tsanev builds the composition as a totem, interweaving the decorative manner.
In the work there is one main figure in the center, which is stylized. The sculpture is symbolically built, combining numerous figures with decorative floral ornaments.
The work refers to folk beliefs.
Floor 6
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