site.btaExhibition by Boris Pramatarov in Sofia Presents “False Imaginations”

Brussels-based Bulgarian visual artist Boris Pramatarov creates "False Imaginations" with his latest exhibition in Sofia. It is on display until October 20 at the Ko-Op Gallery, the organizers said.

In the team's words, the exhibition shows characters, black and white or multi-coloured, who come to life on the border of the imaginary. That changes the physical and gives a new meaning to reality. "Masks absorbing entire worlds, mythical creatures, occult beliefs, dinosaurs... All this is gathered in the series of drawings by Boris Pramatarov, which he describes as 'embodying empty notions, closed and doomed to exist only in the mind,'" the organizers say.

Pramatarov will hold a workshop on October 12, the team also said.

Boris Pramatarov was born in Sofia on 1989. He holds a Bachelor's degree in book and printed graphics from the National Academy of Art in Sofia and a Master's degree in graphic arts with distinction from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent, Belgium. He has specialized in illustration at South Korea's Duksung University and Sint-Lucas School of Art in Ghent. He has also published art books, including My Demons, Insect's Secret, Amygdala, and Fear of Happiness. His comics A Short Story about Communication/Love won the Grand Prix at the Fumetto International Comic Art Competition in Switzerland in 2017. Illustrations by him have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, De Standaard - Belgium, and Capital - Bulgaria. He has an animated film as well, Post Industrial (2015).