« …The sculptures I have been working on for the last few years mark a stage of my evolution as an artist, quite significant. They mark the emergence of my own plastic vision of nature based on personal experience and rich visual culture.
I have chosen to follow classical techniques in sculpture, but I create my figures directly in plaster. Over the years, this approach led me to an extremely good knowledge of the material (plaster) and its characteristic influence on the creation of volume and form. Then I cast my figures in bronze.
The main interest of my creative pursuits is the figure, and the subject that inspires me is the inner world of the ordinary man. These artistic aspirations interact and contribute to the establishment of a highly expressive interpretation and reaction to familiar issues that concern our time. With the presence and development of “eternal” themes such as Pieta, The Doom of Judas, Fugitive and more, and placing them in unison with the current problems of contemporary society, I give to my artworks a social character. The themes of the many and the few, the permanently and the impermanent, the known and the unknown – remind us of the universal experience…. »

Stefan Kotsev