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Atanas Hranov () is a Bulgarian
painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
and
sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
.


Life and career

Atanas Hranov was born in
Plovdiv Plovdiv (, ) is the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, second-largest city in Bulgaria, 144 km (93 miles) southeast of the capital Sofia. It had a population of 490,983 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is a cultural hub ...
on October 11, 1961. He studied at the National Arts School in Kotel (1980) and graduated from Prof. Anton Donchev's
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class at the
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in
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in 1987. Hranov's works range from
sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
to
painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
, often representing an organic fusion of genres. His preferred materials include
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, handmade
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,
canvas Canvas is an extremely durable Plain weave, plain-woven Cloth, fabric used for making sails, tents, Tent#Marquees and larger tents, marquees, backpacks, Shelter (building), shelters, as a Support (art), support for oil painting and for other ite ...
,
bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...
,
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, and
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coated
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structures. Hranov has held more than 60 solo exhibitions and taken part in numerous group initiatives and
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ial projects. He is involved in joint projects with poets Vesselin Sariev and Alexander Sekulov. Hranov lives and works in Plovdiv. Works of his are held at the National Art Gallery in Sofia, many other museums across Bulgaria, and private collections in Bulgaria and elsewhere. Atanas Hranov is an avid seafarer.


Solo exhibitions

# 1992 – Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 1993 – Center of contemporary art Bania Starinna, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 1993 – Institut Français, Sofia, Bulgaria # 1993 – Gallery 88,
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# 1994 – Center of contemporary art Bania Starinna, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 1994 – Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 1995 – Gallery 88, Luxembourg # 1995 – Dosev Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 1996 – Dyakov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 1996 – Lucas Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 1996 – Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 1997 – Lucas Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 1997 – Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 1997 –
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Gallery, Hydra,
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# 1999 – Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 1999 – Dyakov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 1999 – Lucas Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2000 – Lucas Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2000 – Artin Gallery,
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# 2001 – Dyakov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2001 – Gallery 88, Luxembourg # 2001 – Art 36 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2002 – Dyakov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2002 – Yuka Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria # 2003 – Dyakov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2003 – Prolet Gallery,
Burgas Burgas (, ), sometimes transliterated as Bourgas, is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, fourth-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, an ...
, Bulgaria # 2003 – Naturelle Gallery,
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# 2004 – Dyakov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2004 – Naturelle Gallery, Munich, Germany # 2005 – Plovdiv City Art Gallery, Bulgaria # 2005 – ''Fragmenti'', George Papazov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2005 – Prolet Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria # 2006 – ''A Page from a Passport and a Little Hand Luggage'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2006 – Yuka Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria # 2006 – George Papazov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2007 – George Papazov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2007 – ''The Little Female Saints of Valparaiso'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2007 – Yuka Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria # 2007 – Prolet Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria # 2008 – George Papazov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2008 – ''Fragments from my Room'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2009 – ''The Astronomy of Cherries'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2009 – Prolet Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria # 2010 – ''Curriculum Vitae'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2010 – ''The Seventh Hill'', Resonance Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2010 – ''The Land of Dreams'', Le Papillon Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria # 2011 – ''The History of Halos'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2011 – ''The Seventh Hill Project'', Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2012 – ''Both Your Faces I Love'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2012 – ''Little Favourite Portraits'', Eva's Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria # 2013 – Gallery 88, Luxembourg # 2013 – ''A Voyage to the
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'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2013 – ''Paintings'', L'Union Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2014 – ''Seducing the Orient'', L'Union Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2014 – ''The Summer of my Bays'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2014 – ''The Boris Christoff Project'', Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2014 – Prolet Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria # 2015 – ''The
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ns'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2015 – ''A Return to Chaldea'', Le Papillon Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria # 2016 – '' Balthazar's Kettles'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2016 – ''Balthazar's Diaries'', Philippopolis Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2017 – ''The Clear Outlines of Mr. H.'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2017 – ''Portraits from a Journey'', Le Papillon Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria #2017 – ''Paintings'', U PARK Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria #2018 – ''Breakfast in the Studio'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria #2018 – ''Probable Landscape'', Prolet Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria # 2018 – ''Paintings'',„Atanas Hranov“
Programata, September 13, 2018 Philippopolis Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria


Group exhibitions and projects

# 1992 – 100 Gallery,
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# 1994 – Burgwedel Gallery,
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# 1994 – De Leile Gallery,
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# 1994 – Art Expo,
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# 1995 – ''Oh, Gods'', Art 36 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 1996 – ''The Man and the Document'', Center of contemporary art Bania Starinna, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 1997 – Bulgarian Art,
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# 1997 – ''Campo & Campo'', Antwerp, Belgium # 1999 –
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# 1999 – Gorcum Museum,
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# 2001 – ''Spirit and Matters'' – ''August in Art'', Georgi Velchev Art Museum, Varna # 2002 – Vinizki Gallery, Munich, Germany # 2003 – ″K″ Gallery, Munich, Germany # 2003 – ''10/5/3'' – ''Painting and Matters'', National Exhibition Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia # 2004 – ''Re-Paper'', Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2004 – ''Don Quixote'', George Papazov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2004 – ″K″ Gallery, Munich, Germany # 2004 – Slapansky & Slapansky Gallery, Munich, Germany # 2004 - Schloss von Hohenstein Gallery, Germany # 2005 – Salzburg Gallery, Salzburg München Bank, Munich, Germany # 2005 – ''City and Colour'', Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2005 – ''Primitivism and Tradition'', National Autumn Exhibitions # 2005 – ''Classics – Contemporaries – Future Artists'', Aspect Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria # 2005 – ''Nasko H. Stories involving Rum, Ginger, Raisins, and Honey'': a collection of paintings and stories (with poet Alexander Sekulov) # 2006 – ''Classics – Contemporaries – Future Artists'', Aspect Gallery, #2007 – ''Nasko H. The Little Female Saints and the Black Pepper Men'': a collection of paintings and stories (with poet Alexander Sekulov) # 2008 – ''The Floating City and the Black Pepper Men'' (with poet Alexander Sekulov), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Travelling Exhibition, Apollonia Arts Festival 2008 # 2008 – ''The Cyrillic Script Project'', European Parliament,
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# 2009 – ''The Bulgarian Culture Days in Russia'', Manege,
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# 2011 – ''The Fourth of Plovdiv'', Eva's Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria # 2012 – ''Entirely Useful Things'' (with poet Alexander Sekulov), Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria # 2012 – ''Pushkin & Plyushkin''. Collecting House for Entirely Useful Things (with poet Alexander Sekulov), Eva's Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria # 2016 – ''Friends of the Sea Contemporary Art Biennale'', Burgas, Bulgaria


Awards

* 2001 – ''Plovdiv Arts Award'' * 2004 – ''Dyakov Gallery Award'' * 2007 – ''″Amethyst Rose″ Award for High Artistic Achievements'' * 2016 – ''Friends of the Sea Contemporary Art Biennale Painting Award'', Burgas


Sources


External links

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Atanas Hranov and Balthazar’s Kettles
YouTube, March 16, 2016
Balthazar’s Kettles: Exhibition for Dreamers
Bulgarian National Radio, March 28, 2016

Maritsa Daily, October 14, 2016
Atanas Hranov Invites to a Breakfast in the Studio
YouTube, April 18, 2018 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hranov, Atanas 20th-century Bulgarian painters 20th-century Bulgarian male artists Modern painters 1961 births Artists from Plovdiv Living people Bulgarian male painters