Rossen Daskalov
Rossen Daskalov (born 1967) is a figurative artist who works in painting, sculpture and printmaking. Rossen’s works concern the conflict between the individual’s inner world and the imposed order of dominant authority. Amidst a collision of events, his artistic sensitivity ignites to reimagine societal tensions as the pulsating screens of shared conscience. Responding to these convulsing signals with visual urgency, he connects with the rhythmic force of physical forms to reveal the pictorial space as an equivalent of being. He shuns the pursuit of stylistic identity, for style is of lesser value than the depth of emotion stirred by reality to emerge as lived realization rather than predefined concept.
He lives and works in London and Sofia, and he is a senior faculty member at the Royal Drawing School, London.
Courses
Exhibitions
Most important solo exhibitions and residencies:
2022 Artist in residence in Dumfries House, Cumnock (UK).
2018 Crowded solitude, Mercer and Chance Gallery, London.
2016 For the prodigal, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, London.
2013 Antilovewise, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia.
2012 Public sculpture commission for Southwark Council, London.
Most important group exhibitions and other commissions
2021–22 Painting commission for Peninsula Hotel, London.
2021 11th Triennale of Print in Chamalieres, France.
2017 National Open Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, recipient of Gallery Magazine Award.
2015 National Open Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London.
2010 Drawing from Msheireb, Artist in Residence in Doha, Qatar.
Instagram @rossendaskalov
Publications
2023 DELEUZINE volume 2 “SHE DOGS”, Editor Lilly Markaki @deleuzine, London.
2012 “Drawing from Msheireb”, Twelve Artists on changing a neighborhood, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation.
