Stefan Ivanov and his Skoda.
Art by Stefan Ivanov
Text by Stefan Ivanov and Pete Vack
Stefan Ivanov is a 36-year-old artist from a small town called Dryanovo, in the center of Bulgaria. Next month on March 16, Stefan will open a Lauren & Klement/Skoda art exhibition at the Olympia Center in Skoda’s hometown of Mlada Boleslav in the Czech Republic, just northeast of Prague. Says Ivanov, “For the past 17 years I have been accomplishing something never done before; I am creating the entire history of Laurin & Klement (Skoda since 1925) auto company by illustrating it.”
Wait, you’re losing me here. Laurin & Klement? Skoda? Bulgaria? Oh come on. You remember Skoda, once imported here in the late 1950s and of late ran a reasonably successful rally car. It is still alive and well, since 2000 a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG. [Read more…] about An Artist’s History of Skoda