Gligor Stefanov

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Gligor Stefanov (born 1956 SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a sculptor and environmental installations artist, who lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. [1]

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Education and career

He graduated at the Belgrade Art Academy with an M.A. Gligor Stefanov has participated in eighteen one-man exhibitions and in more than 100 group exhibitions in many countries, including the Venice Biennale, in Italy. [2]

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Artist style

He creates site-specific works, paintings and drawings, religious and eco-art with organic materials. [3] From the beginning of his career, Stefanov treated sculpture as an object or an installation of objects situated in space. In 1988, narrative aspects of his work shifted from mythology to religion. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he produced a series of objects and installations, in the form of angels' wings and discs, executed in straw and boards or tree trunks and branches. [4]

One-man exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Stefanov has participated in more than 100 group exhibitions since 1973, among which are:

Awards

Source: [2]

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