Gheorghi Filin

Bulgaria

A Sculptor of liberated free forms, or forms suspended in the process of being liberated in space – this is the essence behind the sculptures by Gheorghi Filin, from Bulgaria.

Filin was educated first at the artistic Academy of Sofia, then at the Academy of Fine Arts where he became an instructor and teacher and for more than ten years held the post of Professor of sculpture at the academy.

In 1991, he moved to Carrara, Italy ‘the’ crossroads of artists who today continue to commit their own sculptural fantasy to creating works of monumental importance as well as smaller pieces for interiors.

The relationship of Filin with the "corpo d'amore" of sculpture is a factor that allows the artist to be involved with the sculpture in every phase of the work, from the raw block to the final refinements, arriving close to a quality resembling human skin.

In the completed work, one can perceive the sensitive modulation of the carved structure and, actually, the sculptural image is not a random choice but is always inspired by the drama of nature, which is a permanent laboratory of constant change in condition and form of material. The organic and the inorganic interacting determine the inexhaustible variety of existence.