Exhibition by Dosi Dimchovski
Dosi Dimchovski, better known in artistic circles under the pseudonym “Osakadosaka,” is a Bulgarian painter connected to art from an early age. He grew up in a family where art was a natural part of everyday life. This environment allowed him to observe different approaches to creating artworks, giving him the opportunity to form a personal attitude toward the process. Dimchovski has a strong interest in composition, materiality, and above all, one of the fundamental relationships in art – emotions and their visual expression. In 2013, he began his professional training in Scotland, and four years later graduated from the University of the Highlands and Islands with a degree in Fine Arts. His education provided him with a wide spectrum of knowledge, enabling him to work across different artistic directions – a key element in shaping him as an artist.
Conceptual practices and contemporary art as a whole showed him that he is less drawn to complex theories and more attracted to the visual side of the artwork. In this way, the very process of creation and the artist’s personal sensations became central to his artistic path.
Dimchovski is one of those artists who travel and thus cultivate taste and experience. The cathartic states hegoes through, as well as creative stagnation, help him break free and start working faster and more experimentally, reflecting his emotions and visual impressions. His diverse explorations have shaped a complex artistic language that merges physical techniques of representation with digital ones.
As for Dimchovski’s painterly and digital aesthetics – he develops abstract compositions dominated by pastel colors. He works with large, harmonious patches of color and relies on traditional materials such as acrylics, oils, oil pastels, and charcoal. In his digital works (posters), he uses digital processing, then prints them on canvas and adds gilding as an accent.
Dimchovski’s style belongs to Abstract Expressionism, connected to the New York School. This style is characterized by broad patches, rhythmic brushstrokes, and intense color relationships – all evident in his work. His aesthetics resonate with Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, and especially Helen Frankenthaler. Likethem, he works with spontaneity and the emotional energy of the painterly gesture.
Beyond abstraction, his work clearly bears the influence of Surrealist automatism – the free lines and graphic interventions that “scratch” the composition recall the practices of Joan Miró or Kandinsky in his late period. What is distinctive for Dimchovski is that he develops his compositions with soft gradations, while the pastel tones bring him closer to the aesthetics of Nicolas de Staël and Vieira da Silva, where space is not strictly geometric but emotional and “breathing.”
Every artist builds their aesthetic on the foundation of influences from others, as a result of shared visual languages. Yet the remarkable thing is that accumulated information is always channeled and refracted through the artist’s own feelings and understandings. Dimchovski’s canvases are more personal and introspective – a kind of contemporary version of Abstract Expressionism, adapted to our time and cultural context.