Ruscho Tikhov is a self-taught artist with an extraordinary creative path. He was born in 1947 in Sofia and died in 2017, a few months after his first and only solo exhibition.

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He studied at the French High School in Sofia and at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. He worked as a literary editor, translator of the BNR broadcasts abroad, novels, plays and other fiction from French.

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In the late 1960s, he settled in Paris. Peculiar, independent, bohemian, extrovert, constantly changing the direction of his personal and professional destiny. Far from any vanity and pretension to be perceived as an artist, although surrounded by such throughout his life.

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He makes his collages and assemblages in a joking manner, like a child's game, and only those closest to him see what his passion to transform gives birth to. He collects small figurines, toys, discarded objects and combines them into colorful, whimsical mazes that go from past stories to the formation of new ones. It moves on the edge of kitsch and provocation, experimenting with images and symbols, counterpoints, religious motifs, nudity, eroticism.