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Natalia Nikolaeva’s interview with Albena Popova “She indeed was not She She could talk with clouds She played at hide-and-seek and Fumbled the pockets of moods…” Albena Popova Our readers are familiar with Albena Popova’s original and unexpected whims, with her artistic surprises, with her collages, the colourful things she creates. Her experiments with words […]

Vera Baleva’s interview from Maria Kirkova’s home Translated from Bulgarian by Velina Vateva The door opens and Maria Kirkova joyfully welcomes me. Even the tiles in the entrance smile their blue color. Hanging on the walls her most recent work—incredibly colorful pieces like bright and complex paintings but weaved of threads. Kirkova is a weaver […]

Interview with Christine Kuhn by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer and Vanya Nikolaeva Christine Kuhn is a visual artist, activist and art instructor based in Lexington, KY. As an artist, Christine is interested in exploring topics which (outside of the realm of examinations of pathological states) are “swept under the rug” of modern western civilization. She investigates violence, […]

Vanya Nikolaeva Paul Biddle is an English Fine Art Photographer, whose work is beyond the limits of imagination. It opens the gates of an extraordinary world where everything you see could hardly be forgotten. “My inspiration and influences range from Renaissance art to Dadaism and Surrealism, from Picasso to the flotsam and jetsam that I […]

Vanya Nikolaeva We are surrounded by the elements every single day of our lives. But when do they start being something more than just gifts of nature? When and how do they commence being art? Liliya Pobornikova is one of the people (literally) holding  the answers. She is one of those artists who is able […]

Vanya Nikolaeva Johanna Fassbender is an artist, singer and musician living in Berlin. She calls her drawings ‘blind’ because she never looks down at the page while drawing. Instead, her glance rests on the model whom she – so to speak – slowly captures. The aesthetic ideal is not the object being depicted, but rather […]

An artist needs the strength to bring out the spiritual light of the world around us. Nikola Manev Nikola Manev, a well-known Bulgarian-born artist, recently was granted the title of Academician by BANI (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts). In the past 45 years, he has been living and working in Paris, but remains connected […]

Iliana Ivanova, virtual exhibit, part II The artist doesn’t create as he lives, he lives as he creates. Jean Lescure My first acquaintance with Iliana Ivanova’s paintings reminded me that the boundary between an artist’s real life and her artwork can be ever so tenuous, especially when the movements of the soul, its quests and […]

Julie Farkas Photo: Macsurak Remi trained the viewfinder of her camera at the painting of a couple dancing in a bar. They pressed their elongated figures close together, their expressions frozen and sad. The dark wood floorboards wobbled and dipped under their feet and the orange walls and ceilings curved inward. Remi wondered if she […]