Yasen Gyuzelev and his country of miracles

Ясен Гюзелев и неговата страна на чудесата )

Ясен Гюзелев и неговата страна на чудесата

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He knows he will become an artist as a child. Sam began to illustrate “Alice in Wonderland” and “Don Quixote” without any teacher giving him such a task. Even then, he was convinced that illustration was an area in which to develop.

Today

Yasen Gyuzelev is one of the most famous Bulgarian illustrators , whose creativity is known in Italy, Spain, Canada, Great Britain and other countries.

(At the end of 2021 the first monograph on the work of Gyuzelev with author Krassimir Iliev. The luxury album consists of 288 pages, and its publication is possible thanks to the publishing house “Riva”.

(The edition presents the art of the illustrator from the beginning of his creative path. Illustrations for “The Name of the Rose”, poems by Francois Villon, “Pinocchio”, “Queen of Bees”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “Socrates”, “Socrates”, “Orpheus and Eurydice” are included. “,” Michelangelo “and” Don Quixote “,” Decameron “.

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“I’m glad that, for example, an Italian publisher commissioned me to paint Pin okio that an English publisher commissioned me to illustrate Oliver Twist. This means that they see in me some qualities that are suitable for their national works – something like “Under the Yoke”. “Letting a foreigner illustrate this means that they have appreciated you,” he told bTV.

Probably the most famous work of Gyuzelev is the illustration of children’s books about Alice by Louis Carroll , which has won many international awards, including a silver medal from the Association of Illustrators, New York, USA in 2004. He was named illustrator of the year at the 1994 International Book Fair in Bologna. He is also the winner of the Bulgarian award “Hr. G. Danov “for the best illustrated book for 2010

In addition to preferring classic works, Gyuzelev also has a distinctive Renaissance style. He paints “old-fashioned” – by hand, with a pencil, in a small studio full of books in the center of Sofia. With each new task, he studies for weeks details of the work and its era to finally create a unique image.

“I must enter the epoch, the nature of time,” he said in an interview with Capital.

“Whether I will be in ancient Greece, in ancient Athens, when Socrates was walking and talking to his fellow citizens, or in the early twentieth century – this is part of illustrator’s skills – to be able to jump through different eras, books, artifacts, everything! “, says Gyuzelev.

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Yasen Gyuzelev was born in 1964 in Sofia in a family of artists. He is the son of the opera singer Nikola Gyuzelev, and his brother is the artist Chavdar Gyuzelev. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1990, after which he worked briefly in Italy. After his return to Bulgaria, he continued to work for some of the largest publishers and magazines in Europe.

His creative process remains the same to this day ). Every time he starts a new book, he experiences “something like fear.” He says that he lived for a few months with the characters and in the era of the book he illustrates. Then he begins to “see” how the illustrations will turn out. The greatest testimony to his dedication to work is that both his most famous work and his daughter are called the same. Alice.

Вероятно най-известната творба на Гюзелев е илюстрацията на детските книги за Алиса на Луис Карол

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Probably the most famous Gyuzelev’s work is the illustration of the children’s books about Alice by Louis Carroll

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