Design and aesthetics before AI: an exhibition by Teodor Lulchev

Until April 30, Concept space “Dom” (Sofia, 49A “Peter Parcevich” Str.) presents the new exhibition of the artist and designer Teodor Lulchev under the title “Before AI” (before artificial intelligence).

“Before AI” presents the design process and prototypes of the “Vechernik” lounge chair, as well as a new series of jewelry by the author.

The author guarantees that in this exhibition, viewers will not meet artificial intelligence. On the contrary – you will discover the story behind the lounge chair by touching the inspiration of the designer and following the thought and work process in creating “Vechernik”.

Even closer to the aesthetic and philosophical aspects of this process, the audience will be able to touch during public lecture with Dr. Teodor Lulchev, which will take place within the limits of the exhibition in the Conceptual Space “Home” in Tuesday, April 23 from 6.30 p.m.

The topic of the lecture is “Art and Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence”. For the need that motivates designers and architects to create, the values ​​they share in their creative process.

The era before artificial intelligence (Before AI) is very vast, diverse and difficult to recreate. That is why it is especially the challenge that the designer has undertaken to attract our attention.

“I run away from making for the sake of making and to give some utilitarian value. In Denmark, I learned that quality in the small form will provide a solution for change in a large size,” he says. And it highlights the doubt and search characteristic of the creator and the intellectual, as well as the infallibility and unwaveringness of AI in the age we are witnessing the beginning of.

Teodor Lulchev was born in 1964 in Sofia. In 1983, he graduated from the Secondary Special Art School for Applied Arts, so called until 2009, and then renamed to “Sveti Luka” National High School for Applied Arts in Sofia, majoring in “Metal”. He completed his higher education at the National Academy of Arts (NHA), majoring in “Industrial Design”. He continued his education at the Institute of Precious Metals (Institut for Ædelmetal), Copenhagen, Denmark, majoring in Jewelery Design. In his creative biography, Teodor Lulchev has more than 30 participations in exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad (in North Macedonia, Holland, Denmark, Spain, Germany). He has four solo exhibitions, two of them in Denmark. From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Teodor Lulchev was a part-time teacher at the “Industrial Design”, “Design for Children’s Environment” and “Metal” departments at the National Academy of Sciences in the discipline “Computer Design”. From 2010 to 2019 he taught at the New Bulgarian University in the “Packaging Design” program, and from 2019 until now he is a full-time assistant in the “Industrial Design” department at the National Academy of Arts. He teaches the discipline “Applied Graphics” at the “Fashion” department of the National Academy of Arts. He is a member of the SBH, the “Chamber of Designers in Bulgaria”, as well as the creative trade union DANISH CRAFTS in the Kingdom of Denmark.