Radi Nedelchev

Radi Nedelchev (April 1st, 1938) is a Bulgare artist whom one especially knows like a painter of the Na5ive art. Its paintings represent especially landscapes, scenes of the life and popular holidays.

Nedelchev was born in the village from Ezerche, a mixed community, formed by Christians and Moslems, to 50 km. river port of Russet-red on the the Danube. Its family was a family of farmers and craftsmen popular, being her mother tisseuse and her father a wood-carver. As soon as it was small Nedelchev was impassioned for the drawing.

When it was fifteen years old, after an argument with his father, it left the house to go to the coast of the Black Sea, where it will survive by completing various work. With old eighteen years it was to achieve its three years military service. At the end of the service, it decided to fit in a new public school of art in Rousse where it will know the painter Marko Monev with whom a studio will divide.

In 1963 Nedelchev and Monev travelled throughout rural Bulgaria, while outlining and drawing, and while trying to also know other artists during their voyages. At this time, in Bulgaria, the historical conditions of the peasants were going to be transformed by a process of collectivization, and Nedelchev and Monev realized that they assisted with the decline of the certain habits and traditions. In 1964 the two friends again finish their voyages on the Danube, where Nedelchev started to live and with painter with the studio of the artist Trifon Nikolov.

As from 1966 Nedelchev started to expose regularly and in one of its exposures he will know his future wife, Mariya. In 1968 they married and they moved with Razgrad where Nedelchev formed a local Trade union artists. In 1971 the art of Nedelchev will be discovered apart from Bulgaria, where, in Switzerland, the writer and art critic Anatole Jakovsky will concede to him the special price in a world contest of na5ive art. After that Nedelchev will make several exposures and he will visit Paris by the first time, even if the communist authorities expressed clearly that this visit was a privilege.

In the same way, the lack of access to the professional galleries of exposure of Occident and to the market of art will prevent Nedelchev from following a career the made-to-order of any other Western artist. In any case, the work of Nedelchev will be introduced into collections private and corporative, like in the hands of several ambassadors and politicking foreign, such as for example, Krupp Corporation (German), the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (of India) and the ex Prime Minister of China Li Peng.

Radi Nedelchev was member of the Bulgarian Trade union Artists and had also the Order of Cyrille and Méthode of first class, the price highest, with regard to art and the culture in Bulgaria.

External bonds

the Web site of the artist
The Bridgeman Art Library
Paintings in the administration of the president of Bulgaria
Art gallery Of Town Of Sofia
International Museum of Na5ive art
Artnet

Future exposures

“Seventieth exposure of birthday”, Room of mood and Satire, 2008 the 1 {{er}} April, Gabrovo, Bulgaria

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