The Sofianer

"The Sofianer" is a collaborative art project that invites artists from Bulgaria and the world to create a collection of covers for the imaginary magazine "The Sofianer". It is also an homage to the cult covers of The New Yorker magazine.

The project aims to celebrate our love for Sofia, to show its bizarre, funny or absurd sides, to give a poetic or unexpected look at the present day, to reveal our dreams for the future and to initiate a public debate about what city we (want to) live in.

My first artwork is of Elisaveta Bagryana, a famous Bulgarian poet, born in the capital, who withessed the passing of Haley's comet, a rare astronomical occurance, twice in her life - in 1910 and again in 1986. This inspired her to write a poem called "The Star".

The second artwork is depicting "Slaveikov" square, with the famous statue of the Slaveikovi father and son sitting on a bench. This cover unfortunately did not make it to the selection.