Kaloyan Iliev - Kokimoto

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 w






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The creation of this work is the result of a brutal act witnessed by the author, an expression of a modern man in crisis. Similar to a legal expertise of damages caused by aggression, spite, envy and hatred, the expertise of our time shows it’s traumatised and "our reality – disfigured".
Violence is a fact bringing me to the thought of the American author Arthur Miller: "Everybody is responsible for the person next to them and denying this duty leads to the decline of the personality".

Rebelling against the deceivable present of the past in one manipulative reality and its connection with the present day political and economical global worldwide changes, I build “samples of reality” which are in a process of hardening while the future is coming closer.
Besides, any thought – shape could be demolished and changed before it has got harder, in 3D as in concrete reality.
Man can and should change the world, and this is possible only if he shows activity….Once “fixed and settled” the event cannot be changed. It is dependent explicitly on us when and how this could happen!