Part of ‘Comfort Zone’ project. The "small dictator" is crowned by his family. The childhood is usually a time of nonchalance, lightness, easiness, social impunity and the basis of our psycoligical portrait. Later on, if you keep the child alive, it communicate with the adult we are, we become its family. We take care for the child in us this amplificator of our inner voice, of our unconditional needs. The composition is inspired by a graphity lettering, wich I met in different places, and asked myself how I keep staying positive... paper 330 gsm; acrylic, pastel; Sediment process *, UV Schmincke coating; box framing -- * This new pictorial concept, developed over the years, is a visual language with its syntax and is based on mathematical logic and linear perspective. It recreates a feeling of movement through cross-sections, with the means of painting. It conveys the message of aesthetic of slow motion – an ethical opportunity to observe the phase of deviation – for understanding beyond the ego.

Elitsa Baramova - Baramó

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Education 1995-2001 – National Art Academy, Sofia/ BG, master's degree in arts, Illustration and graphic design 1989-1994 – National High School of Applied Arts "St. Luke", Textile class, Sofia/ BG since 2007 – Membership: Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA), section Painting Solo exhibitions 2023 – Rakursi gallery, Sofia/ BG (“Vertex” project, painting) 2022 – [a] cube contemporary gallery, Sofia/ BG (“Guardian Angels” project, painting, “Red Room” - installation) 2021 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, „Parallel Realities“/ “Passing Landscapes” projects, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2020 – Bulgarian Cultural Institute, “Passing and Remaining Landscapes” project, Budapest, Hungary – short art-movie "Shared Spaces" (video art "Noumenon") - idea, script, performance and painting, with the support of Sofia Municipality - competition 2018 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, „The Architect“ project, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2017 – White house culture center; – h. Hebros – “Homo Saltans” project, Plovdiv/ Bulgaria 2013 – East-West, Municipal Gallery, retrospective exhibition, Bankya/ Bulgaria 2008 – Maxim gallery, „Monads” project (painting and happening), Sofia/ Bulgaria 2006 – Alte Feuerwache gallery „Cuba Libre – Street Sequences“ project, Göttingen/ BRD 2006 – VERDI Institut, Retrospective, Lage Hörste/ BRD 2005 – BG Culture Institute, Retrospective, Berlin-Mitte/ BRD; 2005 – Gropius museum, „Form follows fiction” project, Alfeld/ BRD 2004 – Laatzen municipality, BRD; – Goethe Institute, „Déjà-vu“ project, Göttingen/ BRD; 2004 – Kuenstlerhaus, „Anthropocentimetries” project, Göttingen/ BRD ’04,‘03 – VERDI Institute , „Geöffnete Türen” project, Berlin Wannsee/ BRD 2003 – Studio Wasserscheune, „Metamorph@sen project, painting and happening with Jazz Musician G. Hampel - Erbsen/ BRD; –Torhaus gallery, Retrospective, Braunschweig/ BRD 2002 – Nikolov gallery, Retrospective, Halle-Saale/ BRD 2001 – Artamonzev gallery, „Polyphonic” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2000 – lokal Arzberger, Expressions – by invitation of Municipality-Vienna/ Austria Group exhibitions 2024 – ONE gallery, Sofia/ BG (contemporary Bulgarian artists) 2023 – gallery of Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA), the charitable cause for the affected areas in Turkey and Syria 2021 – Ari Kupsus Gallery - Budapest / Hungary – Gallery Classica - Sofia / Bulgaria – Sonia Monti gallery , Paris, France, international exhibition contemporary art 20/21 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, Abstract Art Contest (II., III. edition) 2019 – Art Fair West - Norwich/ UK; –Luxart gallery, „La Grande Bellezza" project, Rome, Italy; – [a]cube contemporary gallery, Abstract Art Contest (I. edition); – Gallery Bold, Sofia/ Bg 2018 – Armory artweeks, Stricoff gallery - Chelsea, „The Architect” project, New York/ USA; – Classica gallery-museum, „The woman in art - muse and artist” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2017 – Art Basel, Artbox., „Nomads” project, Switzerland 2016 – Art meets History project, Grimbergen - Brussels/ BE (exhibition in the context of EU master painters) 2014 – V & V gallery, Vivaart gallery, Vienna/ Austria 2012 – Europe gallery, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2010 – Iliya Beshkov Art Gallery, V-th Biennial of Small Forms, Pleven/ Bulgaria ‘09/’08 – modern art gallery Shipka 6, experimental art „Section 13”, object „SOS Golden Trees”, Sofia/ BG 2009 – National Gallery for Foreign Art „10 years of Francophonie“, „Parallel realities” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2001 – Musée des Beaux Arts, “Alienation” project, Ottawa/ Canada​ Awards, grants /selected/ for projects: 2021, 2022 - National Culture Fund, BG; 2020/ 21 - Sofia Municipality (art-movie); awards for abstract painting: 2020, 2021 [a] cube contemporary gallery, Sofia/ BG; 2021 - conceptual bearer of trends in fashion and textiles in 2023, «Première Vision», Lyon / France, selected work from the project «Passing and Remaining Landscapes» 2020 - award for mural - "RAL Indoor Murals" project, Philadelphia/ USA; 2005 - "Rolf Broenstrup" Painting Award, Hanover/ BRD; 2003 - painting award, Laatzen, Hanover/ BRD; 2010 - design award, municipality Shabla; 2002 - design award, logo redesign Europalia festival, Belgium, etc. Art commissions /selected/: 2018 - 2020 Sofia City Library; 2001 -2008 Sofia Metropolitan Municipality; 2008 - 2020 Ergo publishing house, book design; from 2019 - art director and overall design concept of HINSA art foundation (international project) National representative in international events: 2021 - XI Symposium Pappenheim Castle/ Hungary; 2008 - Symposium "EUropas Mitte", Fulda/ BRD, 2002 - Symposium of Union of Artists, Wernigerrode/ BRD; 2001 - IV Jeux de la Francophonie, Ottawa/ Canada, etc. Artistic practice: painting, drawing, video art, happening, installation, giclée print, photography, graphic design (book, poster, corporate identity), copywriting, contemporary jewelry objects. Techniques used: acrylic, oil, watercolor, gouache, pastel, mixed media, pencil, lavis, litho, Giclée print. Baramó often involves conceptual texts with the visual part. She is classified as a neo-existentialist painter by prof. PhD Kr. Delchev (see critical study https://www.baramo.art/criticism-the-architect-project). The author has avant-garde quests and is a creator of the visual language "Sediment Process". Publications www.baramo.art /documentary about my creative process – on home/ Some critical studies of exhibitions and art-film in Bulgarian media – translated: https://www.baramo.art/critical-contribution Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@elitsabaramo6616 "Shared Spaces” (video art "Noumenon") - short art-movie, english version Catalog Baramó – painting, 2021 Bulgaria; ISBN: 978-619-92059-0-7 /english and bulgarian language/ Catalog Paintings - 2003, Bulgaria; ISBN 954-91303-1-2 /bulgarian and german language/