Dimitar Lukanov Explained

Dimitar Lukanov
Birth Name:Dimitar Lukanov
Birth Date:23 February 1969
Birth Place:Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Death Place:Sofia, Bulgaria
Known For:Artist
sculptor
Training:Columbia University, New York, United States
Website:http://www.dimitarlukanov.com

Dimitar Lukanov (Bulgarian: Димитър Луканов, born February 23, 1969, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - died October 15, 2023,) was an internationally renowned Bulgarian-American artist.

Early life and art education

In 1982 Dimitar Lukanov chaired the World's Children Parliament in the Nicholas Roerich-inspired International Assembly "Banner of Peace" in Sofia with 135 countries participating.[1]

He began his studies at the art school of his hometown, worked in a foundry of bronze in Sofia, studied for a year at the Hudojestvena Akademija[2] there and in 1991 left on a full scholarship to continue in Paris. He attended École Parsons in Paris[3] France (1991–93), graduating at the top of the class with honors from Parsons School of Design,[4] New York City (BFA, honors, 1994). In 2003 Dimitar was selected among the Top 100 alumni of all times of the 90-year-old Parsons The New School University of Design among the likes of Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs and others. His studies were fully funded by an Helene David-Weill Scholarship.

Dimitar was awarded full scholarship to the highly selective Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,[5] Maine, USA (1995), and Columbia University Scholarship for his graduate studies at School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York City (MFA, 1997).

Teaching

During the period between 1998 and 2006 Dimitar was a visiting professor and guest lecturer in the United States, France, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. He taught various visual art classes at Parsons' New York campus and led courses in "Intensive Painting and Drawing" for Parsons School of Design in Paris in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Most recently, he was a guest lecturer and critic at the graduate program of Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts[6] at Arizona State University. Lukanov also collaborates on various arts-in-education projects in New York. He was a consultant visual artist doing sculpture and painting murals with NYC Department of Education Special Programs[7] and his students' work was exhibited at the Staten Island Children's Museum.[8]

Activities

Created the monumental sculpture "Outside Time" for renovated JFK's Terminal 4. The signature piece is the core part of a three-work public sculpture project, commissioned to Mr. Lukanov by JFK IAT in December 2012. A structural feat, the unique and ambitious monumental piece is 90% airborne even if it is pronouncedly inclined. The steel and aluminum sculptural work is comprised by some 600 elements as well as 1000 ft of tubing, all hand-bent and assembled by the author.[9]

Commissioned and executed in the lost-wax technique in 2006, "Light to Sky" is a major public art sculpture project at International Arrivals, Terminal 4,[10] at Kennedy Airport, New York. "Light to Sky" is at the top of the annual editorial review of leading US magazine "Art in America" for the 20 most important public art projects in the United States for 2006.[11]

Dimitar Lukanov was awarded Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant for 2011.[12]

2007 – "Silent Wave" inaugurates Yue-Sai Kan lifestyle gallery project "House of Yue-Sai" in Shanghai.

In 2006 and 2007 Dimitar was an invited guest-artist by ArtCultureStudio, Geneva, for the Moscow World Art Fair at the Manezh.

Dimitar Lukanov is a member of the Chilean Association of Painters and Sculptors, Santiago, Chile (since 2010).

Selected exhibitions

Additional references

Notes and References

  1. Rabotnichesko Delo, year LVI, issue 237, front page, August 25, 1982, "Tozi zov ne mozhe de ne bqde chut" by Todor Koruev; Second Session of the World Children Parliament, International Assembly "Banner of Peace", Sofia 1982
  2. http://www.nha.bg nha.bg
  3. Web site: École Parsons À Paris . Parsons.paris.edu . May 24, 2012 . 2012-06-29 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120628142459/http://www.parsons.paris.edu/ . June 28, 2012 . mdy .
  4. Web site: Parsons The New School for Design . Newschool.edu . 2012-06-29.
  5. Web site: skowheganart.org . skowheganart.org . 2012-06-29.
  6. Web site: Guest Artists | Faculty | Sculpture | School of Art | ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts . February 20, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140226103332/http://art.asu.edu/sculpture/guest_artists.php . February 26, 2014 . dead.
  7. Web site: Special Programs - P.S. 020 Port Richmond - R020 - New York City Department of Education . schools.nyc.gov . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100309143942/http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/31/R020/AboutUs/Overview/Special+Programs.htm . 2010-03-09.
  8. Web site: Staten Island Arts » Peacocks, Pendants, and Pagodas . statenislandarts.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140226043710/http://statenislandarts.org/peacocks-pendants-and-pagodas/ . 2014-02-26.
  9. Web site: Broadway World - Broadway News, Tickets, Videos & More.
  10. Web site: Public Art at Terminal 4 – JFK International Airport – International Air Terminal . Jfkiat.com . October 1, 2007 . 2012-06-29 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120526120716/http://www.jfkiat.com/art.html . May 26, 2012 . mdy .
  11. Web site: Soaring Bronze Sculpture One for the Ages at Jfk . NY Daily News . January 15, 2006 . 2012-06-29.
  12. Web site: Dimitar Lukanov – The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc . Pkf-imagecollection.org . 2012-06-29.

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