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    Hristo Mihailov was born in 1962 in Balchik. He grew up in Kazanluk. He graduated at the "National Art Academy Nikolai Pavlovich" in 1989.He live and work in Sofia until 1984.He is member of "Section 13" related to Union of Bulgarian Artists. He is married with one son.

    The artist work in different spheres - sculpture, applied art, painting, black and white drawing and, conceptual art, where he is one of the first in Bulgaria to use the opportunities of lasers and holograms for presenting art images. He is also known as illustrator and designer. In an interview, Hristo Mihailov himself say "The choice of style is according to the momentary emotion. There is nowhere in the world that people look profile on the art. The artist can create everything that his world is made of and that is apprehended to the people. T he artist is an artist, the rest is just learning the craft and a question of personality. I am an artist that feels good in all spheres, because they are whole one, and they complement each other."

    He use every kind of material - wood, stone, metal, glass, oil paints, gouache paints, window and fluorescent paints, robe, sound, laser, holograms, music and efficient lighting.

    To realize his plans, especially in his thematic creations, the artist always tries to reach the unique and catch the spirit of the past. To reach this symbioses, he have always used the help of historians like the late professor Alexander Fol, the director of National Museum of History Bojidar Dimitrov, the archaeologist Georgi Kitov, etc.

    His paintings and plastic arts are owned by collectors and art galleries in France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Luxemburg, England, Russia, Turkey, Japan, USA and Canada.

    There is some other love in his life - the Aikido. For the relationship between him and the art he says "Areas of the universe are the same. The Aikido is just like a school of life, and the art is also a part of our life."

    "...In the presenting sculptures, the dynamic has been reached without outer accessories, without chatty details and easy spatial effects. As he had used the inner possibilities of the shape and stylistic line, Hristo reached a movement in the solidity, instability in the stability, tension in the calmness. The artistic of this style can be found in the fact that although being dynamic, the figures look calm, refined. These works make the transition to another styles, which Hristo prefer - these of miniature plastics and the jewelers. In these ones, the sense for the refinement, elegance, curious combination of different materials, the movement and the play of the light in camera frames, are expressed even more comprehensibly.

Maria Vasileva - art critic

 

        "....An artist, given by a great artist fantasy, original ideas, rarely-found sense of style, measure and composition, skill of synthesizing the modern style with the traditional forms and motives, however his capability of working in different spheres of the applied art....Hristo Mihailov is especially original in the sphere of jewellery.....The shapes are clear, original, functional and every contemporary woman will like them"  He give us a modern art, in which there are real materials, real taste, real feeling, real measure. With this equilibrium of talent, measure, taste, tradition and innovation, I will not be surprised if I see Hristo Mihailov even in the stage-painting or as illustrator of poem vision. Keep an eye on this artist and expect from him new waterfalls of amazing and original creations!"

Vania Popova - Moroz- art critic

 

    "There are different rolls of this versatile and searching talent. If we stand before his plastics, we could not be nonchalant by the amazing ability of Hristo Mihailov to express mythological subjects, to rush into the endless intellectual and spiritual space of history and historic messages. His plastics carry the symbol of Assyrian-Babylon's culture of the Thrace people and the Proto Bulgarians. .... In the searching for the development of the human spirit in the millenniums. the artist look everywhere for the roots of the Bulgarian man, his sensibility, the Bulgarian mentality and character .... "

Ivan Granitski-publisher

 

    "This exhibition must be seen by every Bulgarian, especially the young, in order to understand where are the tough roots of the Bulgarian spirit that always resurrects like seed....13 centuries Bulgarian state has been existing, 7 of them were in slavery, for all that the Bulgarian spirit is still alive...."

Kirila Vuzvuzova-Karateodorova - sourcer

in occasion of the exhibition "The spirit of the Bulgarians - past, present, future"

 

    ".. In my opinion Hristo Mihailov tenacious believes in the equilibrium of the world so he puts his characters in the dividing line zone of the opposite forces, where the tension is the highest, but only where it is possible intellectually or intuitionally penetrating in the highest levels of the beauty and wisdom. .."

Dianko Dianov - poet

in the opening of exhibition (laser installation and sound, Kazanluk)