Vasil Ivanov is one of those artists who discover new worlds. The launch of the first artificial satellite on Earth sparked Vasil Ivanov’s imagination and he began to draw fantastic space visions with white chalk on black photographic paper as early as the 1950s.

The artist is one of Petar Danov’s closest friends and lives in a shack-studio in the Danovist settlement near Sofia. Vasil Ivanov is among the first Bulgarians to practice the teachings of yoga well, and even the photos with examples of the first native book on yoga in Bulgaria are with him.

He describes the atmosphere of his bungalow as follows: „because the ceiling was low, I was distracted while I was painting, I often forgot about it, and when I stood up, I hit my head on it. this was repeated so often that at last I broke through the roof and saw the night sky with the stars above me…”

The internet entrepreneur George Dinchev calls Vasil Ivanov „the third Bulgarian cosmonaut“ because he discovered space even before a man was ever sent there. He is one of those Bulgarians that Elon Musk doesn’t need to know about, but who give us that innate self-confidence that makes us feel proud just like we feel with the Cyrillic alphabet or the first computer.