I work in drawing and graphics, mainly woodcut and silkscreen. My aim is to create a simple image. My interest is solely in the person, the experience, the suffering, the feeling. Landscapes and interiors are only the formal means to show the presence, the absence or the traces of the human being. I tell stories that I do not know.

About the Artist

Desislava Unger's prints recall the power of surrealist suggestion, for as in Georges Bataille's concept of information, they are not only formless, but rather formless as a kind of absence of specific sensations or meanings. These disturbing, emotional images depict scenes of a fragmented world lost somewhere between time and place. Unger uses prints as storytellers, weaving images of family struggles and societies caught in a dichotomy between city and country into a psychological conflict where the real and the imagined are on equal footing. Working in series, visual information is used sparingly in Unger's narratives, enhancing the evocative mood.

born ( *1980 in Sofia, Bulgaria) lives and works in Vienna

2005 - 2010 University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Department of Fine and Media Arts (Graphic and Printmaking), Diploma with distinction

2001 - 2005 National Academy of Fine Arts Sofia, BG (painting), diploma with distinction

1994 - 1999 National Art High School for Applied Arts, Sofia, BG

Collections

The Bundeskunstothek, 21er Haus, Vienna
Albertina / Graphische Sammlung Wien
Collection of the City of Vienna, MUSA
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
International Foundation "St. Cyril and Methodius", (BG)
National Art Gallery, Sofia
Foundation "Culture and Contemporaneity", Plovdiv (BG)

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