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Commissioned and executed in the lost-wax technique in 2006, "Light to Sky" is a major public art sculpture project at
International Arrivals, Terminal 4, at Kennedy Airport, New York. "Light to Sky" is at the top of the annual editorial review of leading US magazine "Art in America" for the 20 most
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Created the monumental sculpture "Outside Time" for renovated JFK's
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During the period between 1998 and 2006 Dimitar was a visiting professor and guest lecturer in the United States, France, Mexico, and the
Dominican Republic. He taught various visual art classes at Parsons' New York campus and led courses in "Intensive Painting and Drawing" for Parsons School of
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in Paris France (1991–93), graduating at the top of the class with honors from
Parsons School of Design, New York City (BFA, honors, 1994). In 2003 Dimitar was selected among the Top 100 alumni of all times of the 90-year-old Parsons The New School University of Design among the likes of
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Dimitar was awarded full scholarship to the highly selective
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Rabotnichesko Delo, year LVI, issue 237, front page, August 25, 1982, "Tozi zov ne mozhe de ne bqde chut" by Todor Koruev; Second
Session of the World Children Parliament, International Assembly "Banner of Peace", Sofia
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of his hometown, worked in a foundry of bronze in Sofia, studied for a year at the
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it is pronouncedly inclined. The steel and aluminum sculptural work is comprised by some 600 elements as well as 1000 ft of tubing, all hand-bent and assembled by the author.
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In 2006 and 2007 Dimitar was an invited guest-artist by ArtCultureStudio, Geneva, for the Moscow World Art Fair at the Manezh.
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Design in Paris in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Most recently, he was a guest lecturer and critic at the graduate program of
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2007 – "Silent Wave" inaugurates Yue-Sai Kan lifestyle gallery project "House of Yue-Sai" in Shanghai.
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This Sculpture Suspends Time And Space At JFK Airport by Sarah Fernandez, Puddingstone Post, 2/28/2014
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1999: Conversation with Mountains, International Art House Lilia Yakov, Plovdiv
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1998: Sculptural Vectors, York College Art Gallery, Jamaica, Queens, NY
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