Jorrras (Georgi Georgiev)

Jorrras (Georgi Georgiev) was born in 1975 in Sofia. He graduated in graphic art from the National Academy of Art in Sofia. The artist, who besides receiving multiple awards exhibited his work in numerous international exhibitions, works primarily in the fields of painting, drawing, object, and installation. He works and lives in Sofia.

Jorrras’ multidisciplinary oeuvre is characterized by a formal plurality and aesthetic heterogeneity. While his paintings deal with today’s notion of aesthetics through a clash of the sublime with pop and the ordinary, his three-dimensional work is relating to the idea of the readymade, as well as to relational aesthetic.

The exhibition at Collect Gallery presents paintings from the “Symmetry of Daily Routine” series, where Jorrras transforms the traditions of abstract art, color field painting, and minimalism into an appealing contemporary state. Like an aesthetic-researcher, the artist investigates the psycho-visual power of colors by combining tonal contrasts into daring compositions that shift between rationalism and emotion. Also works from his “Errors” series are presented in the show. These pieces are characterized through a fragmented notion of a painterly composition, where each part of the work maintains its individual existence. These paintings resemble results of an artistic elementary research which point to the essence of the art of painting itself. In the end, the works from his “Hotel” series show another side of Jorrras’ oeuvre. The object-based and often site-specific three-dimensional works are based on found objects. Every part of the piece tells a story about its past, and so exposes the intellectual as well as spiritual dimensions of the object world that surrounds us.