Sofia Library presents "Slits" - a solo exhibition of illustrations and installations by artist Kapka Kaneva.
The opening is on 20.10.2021 (Wednesday) at 6:30 p.m., and the event marks the beginning of the series "Book Designer of the Month at Sofia Library". The initiative aims to introduce Sofia residents and guests of the capital to contemporary visual artists who have dedicated their work to the book.
Kapka Kaneva works in the field of paper plastic, illustration and book design. She explores the possibilities of children's spatial books to generate interest and attitude towards reading. She teaches at the Department of "Book, Illustration, Printed Graphics" at the National Academy of Arts, of which she is a graduate. Among the publishing houses she works for are "List", "Panorama", "Jeanette 45", "Krug", "Small Stations Press" and Oxford University Press, Madrid. She is the author of “The Game as a Book” (“Panorama”, 2014).
The award for photo illustration from the international BookILL Fest, Novo Miloshevo (2017), the prize for best children’s book from the international Image of the Book competition, Moscow (2019) and the “Golden Brush” from the “Plovdiv Reads” festival for outstanding achievements in the artistic design of the book (2021) are some of the awards she has been awarded. She has been nominated for the “Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award” for illustration.
The exhibition includes works created in the last two years. Some of them are visions for book covers and illustrations, executed in the characteristic plastic paper technique of Kaneva. However, the illustrations for Tanya Nikolova’s poetic anthology “Morse”, mark the beginning of an alternative matrix for the artistic use of the image. What's more: with a triptych of light installations of objects from the anthology, Kapka Kaneva will allow viewers into her artistic kitchen, giving them the opportunity to experience her working process.
Opening: October 20, 2021, 6:30 PM
Place: Sofia Hall, Sofia Library
Closing: October 30, 2021
Source: FB event
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