Todor Todorov was born in Sofia in a family of visual artists.
Works
His kinetic sculpture "Dance" was one of the 19 directly invited/awarded sculptures placed permanently in the Olympic Buildings for the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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. Other kinetic sculptures by Todor Todorov can be seen at
Artparks Sculpture Park
The ArtParkS Sculpture Park sculpture trail is located in Saint Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands, in the grounds of the historic Sausmarez Manor.
It shows up to 200 mostly contemporary sculptures every year by approximately 70-80 artists f ...
, Guernsey UK,
Sculpture by the Sea,
Sydney,
Venice Sculpture Park, designed by
Carlo Scarpa etc. In 2004 and 2005 he won First Prize awards for Kinetic Sculpture in the Kinetic Art Organization's International Kinetic Art Competition, in
Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
One of his bronze sculpture "Totem" has been placed at the New Town Square of
Hamilton, Scotland
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for the Millennium celebration.
Published books
"Elemental Sculpture" was published by
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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in 2013 in English and by Altera Publishing House in Bulgarian. The doctorate is a study in the field of contemporary sculpture, describing an existing but unexplored trend in the development of relationships between sculpture and natural elements, called by the author Elemental Sculpture.
References
Further reading
*''The sculpture reference'' by Arthur Williams – United States
*''LA sculpture en acier'' by Philippe Clerin – France
Art Parks International
External links
Todor Todorov – home pageRoyal British Society Of Sculptors websiteInternational Sculpture Center Sculptor Directory "Todor Todorov, ARBS"
Contemporary sculptors
Living people
Bulgarian sculptors
20th-century Bulgarian artists
21st-century Bulgarian artists
20th-century sculptors
21st-century sculptors
1951 births
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