Publications

December 19, 2011
Artist of the Week – Yavor Gonev
Interview by Velika Gyulemerova

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TV Show FOCUS TV SHOW FOCUS – Bright House, Florida
Channel 49 – June 24, 2010
Yavor Gonev – Ceramic Artist
Interview by Pearl Ollie
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Brevard Art News - May 18, 2009
Mosaic Workshop with Yavor Gonev
Yavor Gonev, a well-known Bulgarian ceramic artist is....
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 Brevard Art News - December 28, 2008
... The following awards were presented at the Art Festival
at the Home Center on December 5th and 6th, 2008:
1st Place - Yavor Gonev
2nd Place - Alex Stankiewicz
3rd Place - Bobbie Brown.
Congratulations to all of the artists!
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by Lou Belcher
Through each piece of sculpture or each painting, Yavor Gonev expresses his
view of life and the depth of our relationship to the earth and all things.
To him, working with clay returns him to his roots.
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News paper "Chernomorski far" - Burgas, 2007/December by Katya Stoyanova
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ИЗБОРЪТ ДА СИ СВОБОДЕН Е НАЙ-ТРУДНОТО НЕЩО
Интервю с керамикът Явор Гонев
...Типичното от българския дух не ми липсва, защото си го нося в себе си. Понякога ми пречи и искам да го променя, но понякога ми помага...
Цялото интервю може да видите в сайтовете на
Катя Стоянова в-к "Черноморски фар"-Бургас
  
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.News paper "Bulgaria 21- vek"- Chicago, 2007/May
Exhibition in Cook County building, Chicago
   
Явор Гонев – художник керамик на свободна практика, работи в областта и на живописта, графиката и приложните изкуства. Негови работи се намират в Националната художествена галерия – София, Художествената галерия “Вл.Димитров Майстора” – Кюстендил, както и в частни колекции в България, САЩ, Англия, Испания, Италия и Македония. Член на СБХ и Интернационалния съюз на художниците, той е основател и председател на Международния пленер “Свети Лука”, Кюстендил.
От скоро Явор Гонев е в Чикаго и показа свои живописни картини в Кук Каунти, Чикаго.

Официално откриване на изложбата направи Maria Pappas- treasurer на 11 Май от 3p.m до 5p.m. на адрес: 118 North Clark Street, Chicago IL 60602 Cook County Building.

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News paper “SEGA”, 2005/June
     
TO OPEN WINDOW Where: Sofia State Art Gallery
 by Desi Balkanska
..... Other interesting exhibition which you can see during the week in Sofia is “Ceramic Paintings” by the artist Yavor Gonev. It is shown at the capital gallery Solers and it is much shorter – only until the end of June. .....

..... Into the traditional material the artist has weaved pictorial elements experimenting with different colored clays, relieves, textures. As a theme in his creative work the folklore presents constantly – elements from the old Bulgarian houses, embroideries, lyrics of folklore songs. Recreated in a new contemporary way, they show the relation between the past and the present, between the traditional and the modern.
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News paper "Dneven Trud", 2004,     
DIPLOMATS ARE ENRAPTURED WITH
THE PICTURESQUE CERAMIC BY KUSTENDIL ARTIST
by Kiril Falin 
 
The Kustendil ceramist Yavor Gonev spends most of his time around his kiln at his house basement. From the red clay there are born his colored plastics, plates, vases ..…
... As many diplomats visit the art exhibition in Kustendil they always stay long in front of Yaror’s works. Not long ago the artist was delighted by the interest of Lin Montgomery, the wife of the ex USA ambassador here. She gladly bought his work “Face” created by motifs of a poem of the American poet Carl Sandburg.
“I am excited most by the folklore theme – admits Yavor – More precise the combination between folk and jazz improvisation – this is what Teodosi Spasov makes in music, with me is refracted trough the language of clay.” According to the sculptor the folklore expresses in most pure aspect the thinking and the conception of the world of the Bulgarians. He models only by hand and uses the natural color of the material, without glaze. Something from the atmosphere of the old homemade textile exhales from his works – they are all painted with different ornaments familiar to us from embroideries and adornments.
But to everything has given a new meaning by the individuality of the artist.
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News paper “Practical housewife”, 2001/ September,    
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
by G. Andonov

The ceramic from Kustendil Yavor Gonev will show old houses, shops, market streets in New York.
“Clay and wood – this is the life, the beginning. Everything is born beneath them because this is the eternal material by which are made miracles!” – says the representative of the Kustendil art school Yavor Gonev who spiritualized the earth material, gave it life and made his works out of it – unique, exquisite, pride to every aesthete. .....
..... Born in Sofia in 1957, member of Union of Bulgarian Artists, author of eight personal exhibitions, he had dozens of participations in expositions of decorative art, owner of several elite prizes. He is known in Bulgaria, in Europe and in the world. At the moment New York has opened its doors for his talent. There, at the biggest street, at the mega polis, at the foot of Empire States Building and the hundreds of banks those dictate the money of the planet; he will show 20 of his works made at his humble home in Kustendil .....
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