Corporate Youth

Photopainting

Magdalena Wanli, Radoslav Penchev, Nikolay Atanasov

10.04.2008

It’s been a long time since we last published photography in CY. To smoothen the transition, we’ve selected for this issue three photographers whose style is fence-sitting between photography and illustration. All of these young artists are modern day representatives of various movements from the development of painting - only now they use cameras and software. So just add a ‘photo-’ in front their respective influences to get their contemporary title. Thus Magdalena Wanli is a photo-impressionist, Radoslav Penchev is a photo-surrealist and Nikolay Atanasov is a photo-expressionist.

Photo-impressionism

by Magdalena Wanli

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Photo-surrealism

by Radoslav Penchev

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Photo-expressionism

by Nikolay Atanasov

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	Art is out of vogue in a Bulgaria that’s yet enjoying its discovery of corporate culture. Many modern talents here have joined the ranks of advertising, fashion and web design. During weekends, however, they still produce a fair amount of, well, art. CY showcases some of the work these young professionals did outside their creative departments.
We periodically publish artworks from the perimeter of the Bulgarian art sphere. We harvest visual projects from young artists who toil the no-man's-land between culture and business. However, we only select what we belive qualifies as art - and is often tabbed under "personal work" in professional portfolios. We argue that this publication often surpasses the local art establishment in contemporary relevance and interest to the global public.