The Prophet, Contemporary Icons by Kokimoto Series

Digital print on canvas, 140 x 100 cm
Contemporary Icons* by Kokimoto Series

On Icons, but not the way we know them – created in days of fasting, but contemporary icons, created in the atmosphere of alcohol fumes and cigarette’s smoke. They are a contemporary adaptation of icons of the past and their relation to the present. They are memories of past times, which I bring to the present and merge with visions of the future.
These works are connected by the common concept of the process of fast and easy co-existence between old and new “icons”.
I feel taken by calmness; the silence, high on Valium (or its modern version Prozac) only masks the noise, the fear and the desperation of the lost meaning. I suffer from the illnesses of our time...
Our subjective thinking as authors is influenced by the whole socio-cultural frame we live in.
In this way the contemporary artists suffer from the illnesses of their civilization and in their images we see the scars left by this illness.

Icon –
1. Eastern Church: a representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred.