On September 7, 2015 in the House of Europe at 124 Georgi Rakovski Str. opened the exhibition "Paintings of Ivan Yahnadzhiev" with the special participation of the pop performer HristoPaskalev - Pascal. Organizers were the association for cultural products and international exchanges "Spectrum 21" and the Information Bureau of the European Parliament in Bulgaria.

For years the artist embodied unconventional ideas in his works, interspersed with turtles, keys, nails, even parts of musical instruments and the pop performer, known for his rich repertoire of over 250 songs in 20 languages, ​​are friends. And they occasionally treat us with interesting joint events that are remembered. What surprised us this time?

Yahnadzhiev showed pictures with lots of sun, stolen moments in eternal inspiration from two European cities - Rome and Sofia. Everything in them is in colour - yellow, orange, red, green and blue. For him, painting is of a "high register" a place to experiment with forms and fantasy figures, in which he puts his concerns, dreams, visions, emotions ... His paintings radiate dynamism and light, and load us with love of life and the world.

We must add the fact that the same goes for his collages. Two of the latter, called "Music dust“ illuminate the foyer of the hall "Bulgaria". He will soon present a new, dedicated to children's, Eurovision. Let us not forget something else - Ivan Yahnadzhiev was the first artist in the country, who started making body art; he began 25 years ago and still does it today.

Lately, the artist surprises us with ideas born and implemented during his master classes with children from the National School of Culture, the lyceum of the Italian language and culture – Gorna Banya. Such is the hedgehog whose spikes are made out of 4000 pens! Or the surprise that awaits us at Christmas and which he won’t reveal completely, but has mentioned that for it he collects 1000 keyboards of old computers, that will be painted with Italian motifs inspired by the wonderful performances of Italian hits from Pascal.

Canzonets were included in the musical greeting from the pop performer at the opening of the exhibition. In fact, currently Pascal is preparing his new twelfth album of the best Italian songs as well as the concert spectacle "Love the Italian way." And love is the foundation of the latest CD of the performer, released only a few days ago - "Songs of Europe." In it he has gathered some of the most beautiful songs of the continent such as the Italian «Un amore grande» («A great love"), the Spanish «Baila Morena" , the Portuguese "Lisboamenina e moça" ( "Lisbon"), the French "Douce France" ,the Czech "Lady Karneval" ("Lady Carnival"), the Hungarian "Szerelemvonat" ("Train of Love") and others. The album contains hits of 15 European countries and is a proof that beautiful melodic songs remain in the hearts of people.

Text and photos: "Diplomatic spectrum" magazine

Текст и снимки: сп. „Дипломатически спектър”