I was born in 1979 in Targovishte, Bulgaria. People know me by the names of Naste, Nasimo, Kardami Kapila Das or by my real name Stanislav Trifonov. I started spraying Aerosol paint on walls in 1995 along with several friends artists and soon after we formed LBC (Los Bastardos Crew) – one of the first and most active street art crews on the Balkans. In 2000 I established a new crew and started a new kind of street art which mixes traditional and graffiti style.
#FineGraffArt came to be my personal crosspoint between contemporary painting and my previously developed street art style.
I’ve been painting murals in Bulgaria, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Greece, Kosovo, Turkey, India, China and Russia.
You can find more about me in this Article.
Professional education:
1998-2003 – ‘Fine Arts’, ‘Saints Cyril and Methodius’ University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Exhibitions:
2009 – ‘Scratching Instinct’- Gallery 1908 , Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 – ‘Scratching Instinct’ – The Fall Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2010 – ‘Lov You’- 5 Open Art Space Gallery, Sofia , Bulgaria
2010 – ‘East meet East’- Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery, London, England
2011 – ‘V.I.T.R.I.O.L.’- Gallery 1908 ,Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 – ‘The Source’ – Gallery 1908 ,Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 – ‘There is a Light’ – Urban Creatures, IEC , Sofia , Bulgaria
2018 – ‘There is a Light’ – European night of Museums and Galleries, Varna, Bulgaria
2019 – ’28 European Stars’ – Go Gallery – Amsterdam, Netherlands (participation)
2019 – ‘Life is a Study’ Fine Graff Art Exhibition + ’25 Years of Nasimo:Sketchbook’ Release
2020 – ‘A Window to Childhood’, National Gallery, Bulgaria (featured artist and curator)
Awards:
2016 -‘Enlightener of the Walls’ by Bulgarian National Television and FM+ Radio
2018 – Contribution towards Culture in category of ‘Fine Arts’ by Municipal of Targovishte
Publications:
2007 – Graffiti art book “Napalm Graffix” published by Edno Magazine
2014 – ‘A Graffiti of Cats’- published by Simple Read , Canada
I have participated in the ‘Meeting Of Styles’ festivals in Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Germany and Poland,
also in many different festivals around the world.
In 2013 together with Iasen Geshev we established the Urban Creatures Festival..
In 2013 with music artist Gerata we established the Goloka Brand.
In 2018 along with my team we established Fine Art Factory Bulgaria.