site.btaRiv Bulgari to Exhibit Paintings and Sculptures at Museum Gallery Anel

Riv Bulgari, born as Radoslav Ivanov, will exhibit paintings and sculptures at Sofia's Museum Gallery Anel from December 15. The Bulgarian-American painter, sculptor, print maker, graphic, mural painter and documentary film director/producer created those works in the last six months, the organizers said.

"I want to nurture a feeling that doesn't exist in everyday reality. A sense of aesthetics. A sense of life beyond everyday life. Beyond eating, sleeping, having a car. Things above that, above the material," the artist said, referring to the exhibition entitled "Beyond Everyday Life".

Ivanov was born in Sofia in 1966.  He graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art and in Animation from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts.

Riv Bulgari lived in Canada between 1995 and 1997, then moved to New York. He was granted American citizenship on the strength of reviews by the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. He received an award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Art and Culture from the US Government.

In 2015, the artist began to actively engage in sculpture and opened a solo exhibition of sculptures at the Bulgarian Consulate in Manhattan in 2016. He took part in many general exhibitions in Brooklyn.

Riv Bulgari works in his studios in Bulgaria, Slovenia and the United States.