XtoUrban Art & Design Studio

Current projects

Human Star. 2017 - 2025

Space Art Installation

The expansion of human knowledge allows expanding horizons for artistic expression. The project advocates for the symbolizing and seeks reaching a consensus within Humanity, to which it is condemned due to its existential condition.

Published: Oct. 25, 2017

Momentum. 2015 - 2022

Kinetic-sound sculpture installation.

The project focuses on revealing the universal change, whose temporality and infinity are constitutive values. "Momentum" elevates the free will of humanity in its insatiable search for new horizons. In a random universe, lightness and temporality are a pattern of constancy.

Published: Oct 16, 2016

Selected projects

Fragmented Reflections | 2021

Kinetic site-specific installation | Villemur sur Tarn, Occitane, France

A bilateral look between nature and the habitants of Villemur. Dialogue, which happens every day, but never repeats or stops. A meeting point that invites us to reflect on the unconditional symbiosis of our existence with the nature.

The kinetic installation consists of a reflective screen, made up of 80 modules with simple geometric shapes, which reflect a fragmented image of the promenade, the shore, the light, the river water and the people walking.

Materials: Stainless steel sheets, support and independent and mountable metal structure.

Measures: 3.55 m. x 4.5 m

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Published: Sept 03, 2021

Organicum | 2021

Mural painting | Villemur sur Tarn, Occitane, France

“Organicum" is the joint project of visual artist XTO (Christo Guelov) and Sighanda. The artists capture their particular vision in a cheerful, surprising and fresh composition inspired by the organic world of the flora and fauna of Vall'Áigo, and by harmony and balance. These figurative and pictorial ingredients create a micro universe.

The artistic project intervenes in the urban environment of the city to be able to rediscover this space and provide it with at least a little visual and conceptual poetry.

Dimensions: intervened surface 200 m2 approx.

Materials: Acrylic paint

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Published: Sept 03, 2021

Confluence | 2021

Kinetic Art Installation. City of Veliko Tarnovo, BG. May - October 2021.

The deviation from everyday reality to a value of spiritual purity for the common good of a responsible future...

The deviation from everyday reality to a value of spiritual purity for the common good of a responsible future. Artistic intervention try to be an temporary emotional stimulant for the people who inhabit and form the social ecosystem of the city. The project brings unexpected dynamism and enthusiasm to the common space. The art installation strives to capture through a unique focus the fusion between the beauty of Veliko Tarnovo and its traditions with the diversity existing in its contemporary culture. Bringing this "clean" energy into the urban space is the starting point of "Confluence".

The art installation brings unexpected dynamism and at the same time calm in the urban space of Veliko Tarnovo.

Measures: 5.20 m. diameter 1 m

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Published: May 03, 2021

Color Time 2020 | Net Art

24 hours Color Time Compositions. Net Art Series. Using simple geometric shapes, time itself is the generator of continuous developments of color compositions. The project is being developed to be interactive.

Programing: HTML5, CSS, JS.

Published: Apr. 04, 2020

Symbiosis | 2019

Immersive Suspended Sound Installation. June 14th - Sept. 14, 2019.

L'ANDART 3th International Biennal of Andorra.

“Symbiosis” is focused on forests, their health and magic and visualize the poetry that the Nature always hides. The pleasure of walking through the forest, renewing with their energy and sounds are irreplaceable.

The sound of the mobile elements leads us to remember the balance of the ecological past in the history of humanity. It is an active and random element, it appears and disappears with the wind. The other actor is the color, its introduction into the landscape is a constant factor.

Dimensions: Height: 6 m. - 8 m. Surface occupied: Distributed in 300 m2 approx.

Materials: 500 m. colored tubes. 100 bells, cowbells and rattles. 700 m. fixation strings.

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Published: July 16, 2019

Color Mobile | 2018

Kinetic (site-specific) Art Installation.

Villemur Sur Tarn, Toulouse. June 2018.

Rivers are a source of life, energy. Historically, the Tarn River has been used, among other things, to produce electricity through the hydroelectric turbines of the Brusson plant, now abandoned.

This installation seeks to recall this moment in the history of Villemur sur Tarn, emotionally connecting the past with the present.
Color and movement are the key elements of this kinetic installation.

Materials:
Wood, polycarbonate, vinyl, metal.

Dimensions:
Diameter 3 m Width 0.5 m.

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Published: July 16, 2018

Pont Couleur | 2018

Villemur Sur Tarn, Toulouse. June 2018. (Site-specific)

Why should all objects in urban space must be gray?
Through the introduction of color, the environment around us, It is much more human and welcoming.

Intervening on the constructive elements of the bridge, the pillars, the installation adds an aesthetic function to them, reconfiguring the existing architecture. The color moves in the water of the river creating a game of colored reflections introducing an unexpected emotion in the landscape.

The artistic intervention has been sponsored by the municipality of Villemur sur Tarn, Toulouse.

Published: June 25, 2018

Digital Limited Collection 2018 | DLC2018

Parallel Horizons

Parallel worlds? Our life takes place within a random universe. We are probably the biological vehicle of the will of the Whole, to expand its universal laws within the global order and we probably do not have relevance with our actions, but what temporary reality do we want to see, live and feel?

Resolution: HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: Stereo. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 5' 32".

Published: December 26, 2018

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Stories | 2018

Interactive immersive audiovisual installation.

Regional History Museum, Sofia. April 2018.

An invitation to reflection on the human condition, interpreted as a coexistence between different histories and destinies resulting from our own life experience. Stories from the past, parallel stories, stories of the future ...

The installation comes alive through the interaction of the visitors of the exhibition, emitting different sounds of bells, cowbells and rattles. Visitors of the exposition will be able to choose and place a bell in the installation and thus complete an immersive and emotional space.

Materials:
1700 m. colored cloth strings, 170 bells, cowbells and rattles, wire and net support.
Dimensions:
High: 5 m. Large: 5m. Wide: 5 m. Occupied surface: 25 m2 approx.

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Published: May 10, 2018

Color Erectus | 2017

Exhibition “Fragmented Stories” VBK Gallery | Berlin Sept. 29 - Oct. 22 2017. interactive installation

Human presence is the raison d'être of the installation.
The idea lies in the movement, in the formal change and invokes the topics that represent or reflect the idea of fertility. It interprets the biological wealth creating a space of colors in movement.

The installation is made up of colored liquids in motion, using the physics and hydraulics.

The artwork comes alive through the interaction of the visitors of the exhibition, drawing in the space vertical lines of color.

Dimensions:
High: 2,00 m Widht: 1,85 m Length: 2,05 m
Occupied surface: 3,80 m2 approx.

Materials:
60 m. transparent tubes ø 7 mm, ø 10 mm
6 plastics bags 1,472 mL ≠ 1,50 Lts.
6 plates DM
7 lts. colored liquids
Steel support

Curators: Nia Tabakova and Mila Angelova

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Published: October 6, 2017

Breathe | 2017

Kinetic Art (Site-specific) Installation, Samokov, BG - August 2017.

Green, clean, fresh, alive! ... here and now! ... let it be tomorrow!

The installation "Breathe" is inspired by Nature, this wealth accessible to people, which is a condition and warranty for our complete human development and existence. Designed for the old fire-tower and realised in green color, symbolizing ecology, growth, freshness, life and fertility.

Children from the family-type accommodation shelter, kids and youth from the town who participated in the construction of the windmills, wrote their desires and painted drawings on them. With the invaluable support of the Municipality of Samokov and the fire brigade of the city.

280 green children’s windmills of polypropylene, Yellow Spray, screws and wooden slats.

Place: The Old Wooden Safe-fire Observatory Tower. International Painting & Sculpture Symposium - Samokov 2017. Curator: Radostina Doganova

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Published: September 6, 2017

The Tree | 2017

Torrelodones, Madrid. April 2017. (Site-specific)

The artistic intervention resides in the pedestrian space in front the access of IES "Diego Velázquez", transforming the urban environment. Intervenes in a public space by introducing color. The colors envelop the passer-by as he crosses the place and traverses the shapes. It reflect the 4 seasons in the treetop. Using geometry again as a structure of design, a living, "fresh" and cheerful space is achieved.

The artistic intervention has been sponsored by the City Council of Torrelodones.

Published: April 25, 2017

Digital Limited Collection 2016 | DLC2016

Raining colors

A study about the color, the circle and the moment. Through geometry, the artwork composes and interprets a particular moment, filling the space with color. A particular moment determines the time.

Resolution: 4K, HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: Stereo. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 7' (10500 frs.).

Published: August 06, 2016

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Message

“I’ve found a message...”

Resolution: HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: Stereo. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 4' 15” (6375 frs.).

Published: July 20, 2016

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Orange Rings | 2016

Veliko Turnovo, (BG) - 14th - 15th May 2016. (Site-specific)

12 Orange Rings placed between the two shores of the Yantra River, under Stambolov’s bridge in Veliko Tarnovo. The orange rings symbolize the life guards and are arranged in four rows. The installation establishes a parallel between the free movement of the water and the global process of the human migration over time. Historically it had always been movement of large masses of people all over the world. Addressing questions such as: what are the actual borders that divide us? What are the causes that provoke this phenomenon and its consequences? How much is human life worth? ...

Located between the both shores of the river Yantra, the installation focuses in a visual way, the issue of refugees and the difficulties that are happening in order to reach the “desired land." The orange color is very striking, associated to extreme situations. The installation takes advantage of the good contrast with the landscape of the River in Veliko Tarnovo. The Orange circles are situated in the midle of the river, without being able to reach any of the two shores. Here comes this parallelism between the free flow of water and the not-so-free movement of persons, although this is “their” fundamental right in all constitutions. About the solidarity of societies, which are willing to accept them or not.

The project was performed out on 14th and 15th of May 2016 on the occasion of the solo exhibition "Selected pixels" of the artist in the city of Veliko Tarnovo.

Published: May 25, 2016

Digital Limited Collection 2015 | DLC2015

Superpositions

An audiovisual performance based on an aleatory overlapping lines, filling the space and interacting with each other, forming a tangle and leaving flashes of color.

Resolution: 4K, HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: Stereo. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 7'.

Published: February 09, 2016

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White cubes

Modular composition of white cubes.

Resolution: 4K, HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: Stereo. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 3' 52”.

Published: March 1, 2015

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Funnycross II | 2015

Torrelodones, Madrid - November 2015 . (Site-specific)

FUNNYCROSS II uses 13 new zebra crossings to intervene in the urban landscape. The metaphor “A bridge between two shores” is the starting point of this artistic intervention. Using simple geometrical designs and saturated colours reinforces the specific signaling and creates a touch of colour in our urban landscape. This action, parallel to the art concept, fights toward improving driver and pedestrian focus, by enhancing respect for zebra crossing using its visual impact.

FUNNYCROSS belongs to as a series of urban art interventions that the artist expects to perform in different cities of Spain and Europe.

Published: December 09, 2015

House of Water | 2015

International Painting & Sculpture Symposium - Samokov 2015. (Site-specific)

Place: The Big Fontain (17th century) Curator: Radostina Doganova

One of the main elements in nature, the Water, is the focus of the Art installation “House of Water”.

The visual gradation from real to abstract and the modulation of architecture with synthesized structural elements, form a dynamic transparent blue cube that materializes the movement, the presence and the energy of the Water.

The artistic installation offers a new read of the iconic building of the city of Samokov and advocates the preservation and conservation of this precious natural good, the Water.

Technical specifications:
80m2 color low density polyethylene (80 м2 blue).
32 m horizontal supports.
Height: 5 m

Published: September 2, 2015

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Funnycross | 2015

Torrelodones, Madrid - April 2015. (Site-specific)

FUNNYCROSS uses zebra crossings to intervene in the urban landscape. The metaphor “A bridge between two shores” is the starting point of this artistic intervention. Using simple geometrical designs and saturated colours reinforces the specific signaling and creates a touch of colour in our urban landscape. This action, parallel to the art concept, fights toward improving driver and pedestrian focus, by enhancing respect for zebra crossing using its visual impact.

FUNNYCROSS sponsored by Torrelodones Council, Madrid, has been located at that town’s three schools’ four zebra crossings: San Ignacio (“Diagonals I” and, “Diagonals II”), Lourdes (“Waves”) and Los Angeles (“Interferences”), and in front of the Casa de Cultura “Carpet” Crossing.

Published: April 14, 2015

McLaren wall to wall. Montreal, Canada - April - July 2014

COLOR.RYTHMETIC

Site specific installation. (Video mapping)

Winner of the Grand Prize in the NFB’s McLaren Wall-to-Wall competition, this experimental video extends the approach of McLaren’s Synchromy (1971) by exploring the synchronicity between sounds and images, with geometric shapes engaging in a multicoloured dance guided by digital noises. Artist Christo Guelov thus offers an original perspective on the evolution of artistic media and of our relationship with technology.

Published: May 09, 2014

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Digital Limited Collection 2014 | DLC2014

Revival v2

Emerging, awakening, raising, flying, loving, feeling... and returning again.

Resolution: 4K, HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: Stereo. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 4' 09”.

Published: December 30, 2014

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Ocean colors

Some reflections of fluid colours with geometric structure.

Resolution: HD 1920x1080 pxs. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 2' 58”.

Published: July 15, 2014

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SPAM MESSAGES

Series of short written message in 13 seconds.

Digital Limited Collection 2013 | DLC2013

Caution! Wet Paint

If our emotions could be represented graphically as brightly colored lines, constantly dripping, like filling and fueling our expectations, this interpretation would be a valid attempt. Spaces that are filled with pure colors, some of which will be absorbed by the dark, others will emerge from the same. Caution! wet paint, can "stain" our State of mood.

Resolution: HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 5' 40”.
Work selected to be presented in FILE Video art, FILE 2014 - Electronic Language International Festival. From August 25 to October 05, 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Confluence

Confluence of colors and perfect meeting space.

Resolution: HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 3' 40”.

Published: September 09, 2013

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Social Bang

Abstract and minimalist digital motion artwork, that uses the icon of social networks, "share", as the main constructive element. The expansion of communication as underlying power generator.

Resolution: HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 2’ 12”.

Published: September 09, 2013

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Rates V2

Intervals, cycles, routines... We are surrounded by a web of frequencies of all kinds. We are living with timings, deadlines, loops, etc. What's your rate?

Resolution: HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 3’ 45”.

Published: September 09, 2013

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Organicum

Synthesized representation of the organic world.

Resolution: HD 1920x1080 pxs. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 2’ 16”.

Published: May 13, 2013

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Digital Limited Collection 2012 | DLC 2012

Work05 V3

Inspired by the work of Rodin "The thinker", emphasizing the relevance of the fundamental themes of the human nature, could be one of them, the self-determination. In female version... and digital.

Resolution: HD 1920x1080 pxs. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 3’ 38”.

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Work06

Still life at different moments of the day.

Resolution: HD 1920x1080 pxs. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 2’ 40”.

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Work03

Modular composition of black and white lines. The beauty of the gravity and the notion of a full and empty space.

Resolution: HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 2’ 40”. Available in UHD (4K).

Work selected to be presented in FILE Video art, FILE 2014 - Electronic Language International Festival. From August 25 to October 05, 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Work02 V2

Growing ... in my garden.

Resolution: HD 1920x1080 pxs. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 3’ 22”.

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Work01

Operating dynamic weave, composed of thousands of elements perfectly synchronized. Work inspired by the concept of the information society.

Resolution: HD. Video code: (HQ) H.264 MP4. Audio: None. Play mode: Loop. Loop duration: 2’ 04”.

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ready-made

PROMISES | 2014

Ready-made.

Washed, mirror, soap bottle, plastic letters.

performance

PARLIAMENT LIONS | 2012-2015

Site specific. Congress of Deputies, Madrid

The focus of this project is temporarily assign our lifestyle at the sculpture and reflect upon the current democratic values.

Target date: 6th, December 2015, Hours: 11:00 AM - 17:00 PM Place: The lions in front of the Congress of Deputies, San Jeronimo str., Madrid

Communication | 2012

Performance "Communication". Mini-festival of contemporary Arts “Old post or the modern means of communication" BG.

archived project

Lego's Bridge. 2017 - 2021

Urban Art&Design | Älvsborgsbron bridge | “Let’s color Gothenburg” | Gothenburg Art 21

The artistic intervention seeks to break the gravity, the volume and the great weight of the intervened object. In this case the bridge. Smooths the silhouette of the bridge, adding emotion to the place, through the color.

Published: Sept. 25, 2017

Madrid based artist. He graduated in Graphic Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. After 20 years developing his creative and professional activities in the audiovisual industry and the multimedia design, his creative search is the bridge between the classical forms of artistic expression and the new means of expression in the New Media.

Statement

In art everything is worth it! But not all valid nor will be worth!

Opening up new horizons for human experience has always been the main source of creative energy, both in science and in art. To inquire into 'something' apparently non-existent or invisible to others and to provide it with real presence has always been the natural mechanism to generate usefulness for "art objects".

The Urinal(“Fountain” 1917), which appeared in the last century, instinctively “wanted to”, “changed to” and “confirmed to” this mechanism. If an artwork was a book, painting or sculpture before, for example, now it is an SMS, or whatnot, why not? that's what our collective memory is in charge of of each and everyone. Sensory or intellectual pleasure remains real.

Light, Movement, Rhythm, Color... How do they change us?
The only permanent thing today is, a paradox indeed, the change. Change has established as a rule in the world of visual communication. This is the art of Present!

This dynamic evolution, which is energized by ourselves and at the same time changes us and determines our perception of the reality around us, an increasingly "increased" reality, is the main concept in my quest.

Movement makes time visible, is the formal change. Distinguishing the terms: "things" of "events", "mobility" of "immobility", "time" of "timelessness", "to be" or "to become", my attention is focused on the dimension of Time. The temporality, the relativity of "Whole” and recurrence of the time in the life cycles, are the target of my experiments and determine the nature of my work.

The art of today is a great laboratory for research, and that is so. And I´m here as well... and I´m turning to you!

Events

May-July/2021 - Artistic Residence. Villemur, Toulouse, France.

May-Oct/2021 - “Confluence" Kinetic Art Installation. Veliko Turnovo BG.

June-Sept/2019 - "Symbiosis". Immersive Suspended Installation. L'ANDART 3th International Biennal of Andorra.

Sept/2018 - "Funnicross ". (Site-specific) Urban Art. Paracuellos de Jarama, Madrid, Spain.

June/2018 - Artistic Residence. Villemur, Toulouse, France.

June/2018 - "MusicBox" Video mapping. Festival "Luz y vanguardias" Salamanca, Spain.

April/2018 - “Stories” Interactive immersive audiovisual installation. Regional History Museum of Sofia, Bulgaria.

2017-2018 - “Lego Bridge” Urban Art. Gothenburg, Sweden.

Oct/2017 - “Color Erectus” Interactive installation and "Stories" Intractive sound installation. Collective exhibition “Fragmentierte Erzählungen” VBK Gallery Berlin.

Aug/2017 - “Breathe” kinetic site-specific installation. International Symposium of Painting, Samokov, Bulgaria.

Apr/2017 - “The Tree” (site-specific) Urban Art. Torrelodones, Madrid, Spain.

May/2016 - "Orange Rings" (Site-specific) - Veliko Turnovo, BG. 

May/2016 - Solo exhibition "Selected pixels" - Veliko Turnovo, BG.

Aug/2015 - "The House of Water". Site-specific installation, International Painting&Sculpture Symposium Samokov, BG.

Apr/2015 - "Funnycross". (Site-specific) Urban Art. Torreloddnes, Madrid, Spain.

Dec/2014 - Digital Limited Collection 2013&2014. Collective exhibition "Diplomatic Art". Timisuara, Romania.

Aug/2014 - "Caution! Wet Paint" DLC 2013. FILE 2014, FILE Video art. From August 25 to October 05, 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Dec/2013 - Digital Limited Collection 2013. Collective exhibition "So close, so far II" National Palace of Culture, Sofia, BG,

Nov/2013 - "Frecuency" Video Installation -"Dupini Like Project" Video Art Festival V.Turnovo. BG.

Sept/2012 - Digital Limited Collection 2012. Collective exhibition “So close, so far” National Palace of Culture, Sofia, BG.

1991 - Water Color Collection “Matriarchy”.

Art & Audiovisual Desidn Awards

July/2017  “Lego Bridge” Urban Art. Gold winner of Gothenburg Art 21 competition. Let's colour Gothenburg.

April/2014 - Winner of the Grand Prize in the NFB’s McLaren Wall-to-Wall competition, Montreal