The COVER CLASSIC GRAPHICATURE COLLECTION (1999-2003) is the most recent series, featuring thirty artworks created by Professor Gazdov during the past several years. The graphicatures, familiar to connoisseurs, appear for the first time in shapes and technique unusual for them. In addition to serigraphic prints, they exist as vinyl ‘billboards’.

The cycle of graphicatures, not shown before, is directed towards the world’s history of art, which is turned into a subject of visual interpretations. The artist has put under operative analysis paintings by some of the world-famous painters ranging from the Renaissance to the Postimpressionism. All works are united by one common ideological strategy, but the original idea has gone through numerous directions of development in each artistic creation. World-famous artwork masterpieces by Brueghel, Rubens, Vermeer, Mane are recreated. The Professor Gazdov’s artistic intervention is not only visual but also a conceptual one. Familiar details are developed towards a direction never imagined before; they can be hidden in the white spots or they can completely disappear. Through his critical approach, the author reveals details that are only implied in the ‘original’ artwork or completely eliminates the ones infringing the logic of the interpretation. Thus, the graphicatures retell, further develop and create new content of the works emblematic for the history of art.

According to “Bulgarian Encyclopedia, A…Z”, published in 2002/2003 by the ‘Trud’ Publishing House, “graphicature” is “a definition of a visual idea with grotesque and artistic unexpectedness and a typical relationship between the black spots and the parts of the white background entering them, in a serigraphic technique; the author’s graphic style of I.Gazdov.

Prior to the present collection of graphicatures, the cycles ‘Play of silhouettes’, ‘Graphicatures-origami’, ‘Black touches’, ‘ Erotic graphicatures’ are created and shown in a sequence of exhibitions in Sofia, Plovdiv, Yambol, Gabrovo, Tryavna, Sozopol, Paris, Copenhagen, Toyama, Warsaw.