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About me

Petar Stanchev, an enigmatic visionary whose work whispers of an alternate path. Born in Bulgaria and shaped by nomadic sojourns through Algeria, Morocco, and the Czech Republic, Stanchev is no mere observer of life's tumult. A senior banker at Citibank, an investment maestro in corporate finance and M&A, a director at Kearney, and now an entrepreneur in the ethereal realms of IT, software startups, and artificial intelligence, he holds a doctorate in theology.

His life is a tapestry of worldly pragmatism interwoven with philosophical quests into human destiny, harmony, and the soul's boundless aspirations. Yet it is in art that he distills this multifaceted existence into something profoundly mystical: a credo of eternal optimism, a luminous counterpoint to the prevailing gloom.

Stanchev's art defies the constrained techniques of classical representation, embracing unbounded expressions that channel the spirit's raw distillate: thoughts, desires, fears, and expectations unbound by tradition. Here, the canvas becomes a portal to higher states of being, elevating the viewer toward etheric spaces of unlimited excellence, harmony, and light. Amid the dire expressions that dominate contemporary discourse—legitimate laments over human suffering, aggressive societal ruptures, and the irresponsible plunder of nature—Stanchev offers a tiny, harmonic beam of warm, faithful light. It is the yin to the yang, the forward gaze amid reactive outcries. While others ventilate frustration through simplified forms and barrier-breaking gestures, he invokes the undivisible human essence: hope, belief, and aspiration. This is the invisible force that has propelled humanity through millennia of strife, wars, diseases, hungers, yielding medicines, benevolent innovations, and acts of profound good. In Stanchev's realm, art is not mere reflection; it is propulsion, a drive toward the eternal good that justifies our existence.