Featured Artist

Paolo Ventura

Internationally acclaimed artist Paolo Ventura (b. 1968) is a master of the staged narrative, bringing the great theatrics and drama of the world to light in his moody photographic tableaux. Although the final product of his complex, multi-disciplinary practice is always a photograph—a dreamy, surreal hybrid between fact and fiction, the present day and the past—his process features many steps, and his realization of any given idea involves various stages of development and progression. He always begins, however, by imagining a story, which he illustrates through water-color drawings. He then draws the narrative into three dimensions by building a set—initially

Featured Artist

Deyan Vatchkov

Born in Sofia, he carried out his studies in his city under the guidance of Konstantin Karapetrov. He won the Iris Idami Corradetti Competition in Padua, as well as the Verdi Prize at the Belvedere Competion in Vienna. In 2001, at the age of twenty-one, he was admitted to the Academy of La Scala, where he studied with Leyla Gencer, Luciana Serra, Luigi Alva and Teresa Berganza. During the first year he sang with Plácido Domingo e Olga Borodina in Samson et Dalila. In a few years he debuted many roles of the operatic repertoire, among which are particularly interesting