"On the Traces of Faith" by Yana Kostadinova 21.06 - 8.07 2018

Yana Kostadinova "On the Traces of Faith" painting exhibition 21.06 - 08.07.2018г.

We exist here and now. But are they here and now really up-to-date and trustworthy? Are they being pushed out or chosen deeply by us? Where are we and how to find?

What are the coordinates of our private time and place? Where does our spirit live and where the spiritual crosses the material?

These are just some of the questions behind this show. Her idea is to show and explore those magical places in which the sacred, forgotten and past continue their strange move through time and time.

Places that, although inconsistent with the actual chronology, continue to set and determine the accuracy of our spiritual orientation. Places - an echo of long-sought salvation, long-spoken and forgotten prayers.

Their coordinates, although formally belonging to one religion, are in fact symbols of universal universal values, symbols of the original questions and aspirations of every person.

They are outbreaks of condensed human hope and the roadstone of every lost soul. The energy they bring is heterogeneous, insatiable and alive to this day. It is to her that I would like to visualize and recreate the white canvas by overcoming the specificity and the cause of the real image in order to redraw it in the freedom of abstraction.

In this topography of the sacred, the most important thing remains invisible, but the artist's mission is to see and show it. Real objects are signs on the road that everyone has to find and walk on their own. And regardless of whether we see the silhouette of a distant monastery on the mountain hills or the glitter of the church plate - faith is what raises both the forms and the human chronology.

Biography of the author: Yana Kostadinova was born on January 9, 1972.

He graduated from the National Academy of Arts in 1996 in the Stage design studio under Prof. Georgi Ivanov and began his professional career as early as his student years, working actively for the Varna Drama Theater "Stoyan Bachvarov" and the Plovdiv Drama Theater "N. O. Masalitinov ". She was subsequently appointed as a permanent stage designer at the Plovdiv Theater.

Her scientific quests returned her to the Academy of Arts in 2003, where she defended her doctoral dissertation on "The Bulgarian fashion and theatrical costume in the projections and aesthetics of art nouveau." In 2001 she was invited as a lecturer and since 2005 she was appointed as a regular lecturer in "Costume History" at the Fashion Department.

In 2007 she published her book "The Bulgarian and West European Costume in the Projections and Aesthetics of Art Nouveau".

Yana Kostadinova's first solo exhibition is "History in Collages" at Arthur Gallery in 2011. Since then Yana has been participating in both collective exhibitions and entirely original projects.

She works in the field of painting, fashion and experimental jewelry. Her exhibitions are completely finished concepts, which often include paintings, clothing and jewelery. The works are performed both through classical means of expression and with the help of non-standard materials. Yana provokes common beliefs and offers unexpected artistic choices, using paper to make garments and jewelery, and gives freedom to her brave artistic style.

Yana's latest exhibitions show a mature, handwritten handwriting that never stops surprising, asking questions about shapes and re-shaping them into colorful emotions.

The paintings of Yana Kostadinova are owned by private collections in the country, Russia and America.