Vasil Nikov Bulgaria

Vasil Nikov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a university degree in visual arts.
He has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001, teaches sculpture at the Montreal Recreation Center and also works on artistic projects in the film industry.
Vasil Nikov is a member of the Conseil de la sculpture du Québec (CSQ) and the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels (RAAV), and is registered in the Artists' File under the Policy on the Integration of Art into Architecture.
His works are an integral part of the urban landscape on three continents: Europe, Asia, and North America. Throughout his artistic career, Nikov has participated in several international sculpture symposiums and numerous solo and group exhibitions. He has created several public artworks in Quebec and abroad.
Vasil Nikov began his career as a painter. Over time, his curiosity to experiment with different means of artistic expression led him to sculpture, through which the artist shares his new perspective on the environment and expresses his creative essence.
Inspired by the desire to share the joy of creation, the artist's conceptual approach revolves around the symbiosis of sculptural art and the natural beauty of the surrounding space. Human beings, with their emotions and passions, are at the heart of this environment.

In his creative journey, the sculptor experiments with different mediums, but in recent years he has been working mainly with stainless steel, a product of modern technology that is strong and durable, easy to maintain, and reflects natural light. An explosion of lightness is felt despite the hardness of the steel, accentuating its radiance.
Nikov discovers, explores, and shares the transformation of metal. Steel becomes malleable, light, and tamed. In his hands, metal takes on elegant, slender, harmonious, and lively forms. The artist draws inspiration from the sculptors of ancient times, whose works conceal the elegance of movement even though the sculpture is static and does not move.
The material no longer plays on grandeur, but rather on the presence with which the sculptor incites dialogue.