Daniel Medvedov Art Bio

Study:

Applied Arts Municipal School Ramnicul Valcea, Romania

Metal engraving with his father , Vsevolod Medvedov, artist & jeweller

Chinese Calligraphy with Master Liu Yuen Chiao and Master) Su Yu Chang

Exhibitions:

• Art Municipal Museum, Rm. Valcea (1968), Romania
• Casa Scriitorilor Bucarest , Romania
• Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, Premio Fondene (1975)
• Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela (1977)
• East-West Essence Society, Taipei, China (1981)
• Wat-Po Temple, Bangkok, Tailandia (1981)
• Alliance Francaise, Caracas, Venezuela (1990)
• Galeria Ochoarte Caracas, Venezuela (1985)
• Arts & Minds Academy, Miami, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA (2005)
• Books & Books, Miami, USA (2006, 2007)
• Bigsmile Vienna, Austria (2010)

Daniel Medvedov has illustrated many books:

• "Diario de Abordo que no vio el Capitan" by Lutecia Adams
• "Tratado de Navegacion para Ninos Medievales" (autor),
• "Caballo que comia flores" de Aquiles Nazoa
• etc.

Talent:

Somebody comes unto life with talent. Talent s not received from parents, simply because a child is not a dish made in an oven by a man and a woman. I came with my drawing talent from afar, may be from future, may be from the past. So, since I know myself, I have the capacity to see and to draw and paint landscape, faces, animals, people, imaginary beings, logotypes, signs, letters, in one word, callygraphy. Early in my life I saw my father painting, engraving, making art with his hands in metal, gold, silver, oil, sculpture.
Art is making the trivial to look like extraordinary, trough the ordinary shape in astonishing forms and shades. I was a student at the Plastic Applied Arts in Ramnicul Valcea, a small city on the border of Transilvania. I made thousand and thousand of drawings, photographies, frescoes, sculptures and objects, creating, using imagination, intelligence and phantasy.
Later I discovered Kanji, Oriental Art, Landscape and figures, birds, tigers, animals, insects, something like my dear Hokusai did in his life, this man crazy for drawing, like myself.

I discovered a style and suddenly I became one.

Many occidental artists claim an occidental fashion of their art and despise my chinese and japanese signatures and seals. I do not care, just because very few ones in the occidental world are capable to write a calligraphic ideogram without showing their amateurism and ignorance. I did many exhibition in China, Paris, Caracas, Miami, Romania.

I am content with my style.

My masters Su Yu Chang, Liu Yuen Chiao and Nan Huai Chin opened my eyes and my heart.

Zen is a way of seeing. It is contemplation. It is a spiritual and metaphysical art.

The main ingredient of Zen Painting is internal silence. So, as others were declared before me, I truly speak with my art. I do not need to explain myself. I do not take in account the observer complaints. I am an individual with a kind of a zest which tastes dry and shadowy, like the first day of the moon: the ashes light - SHIBUMI in japanese.