Pink Danish Man Photograph - Limited Edition of 5

Pink Danish Man is a pop-art work. It encompasses visual codes from both popular and high culture. The composition is based on the kinetic image of a ballpoint pen which, when turned up and down, presents in turn a picture of a man first dressed, then naked. That kind of images were being smuggled into socialist Bulgaria from the West, in rare Danish ballpoints. They were highly valued in mass culture and became part of the popular city folklore. Such images functioned as a kind of visual dialect of the highbrow art language, which could then take them up to a new context. The intentionally faded colors work for the intended retro effect and add a historic time dimension. In all, we get an esthetization of the banal in the form of a new conceptual object.