Ventsislav Krastev
Date and place of birth: 09.06.1954, Sofia
Education: higher: film-specialty animation directing VGIK Moscow
Professional experience (in a few words): drawn comics-series History of Bulgaria "Strahil Voevoda" and "Indzhe", storyboard and concept in feature films Boyana studios. Author's animated films: "Allegory", "Little Song", "Suddenly, boldly, forward!"
Exhibitions: "Forgotten Bridges" - Church "Pokrov Bogorodichen" - solo
"Animals and I" - Russian Cultural Information Center - solo exhibition with animalistic illustrations.
Participation in two joint exhibitions of SAFSI.
Awards: animated film "Allegory" in the city of Lidice on an ecological theme in 1988
Illustrated works: PAN Publishing House - "The Most Famous Animals of Bulgaria" and "The Most Famous Animals of the World"
author's book "'My First Book about the Prehistoric Animals of Bulgaria" with consultant senior research fellow Prof. Zlatozar Boev
Favorite illustrator: Vadim Gorbatov (Russia), D. Braun (Germany), Grabianski (Poland), Mirko Hanak (Slovakia), Georgiy Nikolsky (Russia), Georgiy Pchelarov (Bulgaria).
Favorite illustrated book? Ernest Seton Thomson (Canada) - a literate writer and a literate artist - this is difficult to combine in one person. I love to see children's books on nature with illustrations by real artists - animalists, not dilettantes!
Which book do you dream of illustrating? A book-album with my drawings of animals and text. Because book-albums by animal artists around the world and in Bulgaria are rarely published. I dream of illustrating Emilian Stanev's magnificent texts about animals!
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