Gallery L'union de Paris - Plovdiv
presents Dimitar Shopov
Novo selo – turist destination
Dimitar Shopov's one-man show includes paintings, sculptures and videos.
10.01.19 - 10.03. 2019.
"NOVO Selo" is a legendary film, prehistoric saga of the Bulgarian director Dimitar Shopov, created in the beginning of the 21st century and developed by his company friends.

"The series consists eighteen films and one pre-view, not yet shown, between the third and fourth films. This episode (Turist destination) will take place only in the form of an exhibition at L'UNION Gallery, Plovdiv on January 10, 2019. The exhibition includes gypsous models, which make not a small part of the special effects.

The film "NEW village" has a huge impact on modern Bulgarian pop culture and tourism, although no one has ever seen it, and it’s the fifth most profitable film series ever. 
The main subject line, presented in the film, is based on failure and it’s inspired by the ancient Rome, Egypt, Darwin, the World, the First and Second World Wars, the period of Jura, Creta, the Middle Ages and the Bulgarian Revival.

The plot of NOVO SELO develops in a parallel-made reality created by the MAYOR of the village on the territory of the Museum of Creation in Novo Selo, Plovdiv, inhabited by dozens of different types of concrete creatures, most of them humanoids. The most important inhabitants of the museum are the Neanderthals - the only and highly intelligent for their time а man and а woman, of flesh and blood - all honorable people, created primarily to multiply and survive.

The majority of the hundreds of hectares of new-village land are not incidentally included in the ancient land of the Thracian tribe of Bessi - a democratic federal tribal formation, lived in our lands thousands of years ago. The madness, that ancient people are endowed with, is an omnipresent form of energy that gives supernatural abilities to the heroes in Novo Selo, who, besides calculating it, do not know anything else. She, the main character Diddy, is an approximate image, stemming from everything feminine and embodied in itself. He - Indy is an unsuccessful hunter, more inclined to plant tomatoes, but alas tomatoes are gone.

There is also the so-called Dark Side in the movie, which arises from the inadequate attitude of scriptwriters to the film. 
One thing is clear - those who use Power For Good are the last people, and facing the Dark Side are wild apes of the POLO tribe, who will one day use stones and sticks to try to conquer the native cave and end the tortured human genus. 

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Jean Engaged

Dimitar Shopov was born in 1980 in the town of Kardzhali. He graduated from a master's degree "Stage design" in 2007 at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. He has worked as a stage designer in "Sofia Theater" and the theatre of "Sfumato". He has four one-man shows at L'unioin de Paris Gallery in Plovdiv and participates in a number of groups in the country and abroad, such as Dear Mr. Provincial, Swimming Pool, Sofia (2017), "Let them Draw", SARIEV Contemporary, Plovdiv (2016), All I Can Do is Art, Prague (2013), Gavazov and his Time, Sofia Contemporary, Near, Closer, Together, Sofia (2013). Part of his realized projects are "Auction of avant-garde Bulgarian art, Gavazov and his school, originals", performance of Vera Mlechevska and Dimitar Shopov, part of the Night of Museums and Galleries, Plovdiv (2014), Gavazov, performance, part of the festival “Father Paisij street - Text”(2011), "Ourself occasions", a project, part of the NIGHT of the Museums and Galleries, Nebet tepe, Plovdiv (2011), "Djumayata", a project part of the NIGHT of the Museums and galleries, Plovdiv (2010). 
Over the last 10 years, he has devoted to a survey of the life and work of the artist Gavazov and the search for artifacts related to him. In 2012 his book-album dedicated to the artist, appeared and it won the literary prize "South Spring". Dimitar Shopov was the winner of the Young Artist Award BASE for 2016.