Atanas Botev

Art with attitude
& message

We are a society with all kinds of turbilences
and therefore a fertile ground for commited art

About

I'm trying to make a synthesys of the history, the artistic streams and the ideologies of the near and distant past, and redefine them, actualizing their meaning today, and confronting the political, the public and the social contex

This is about a hyperrealistic procedure - a simulation of a collage where I try to reinterpreted all my preoccupation, like for example the elements of the popular culture, the comic, the film, as well as quotations of the artworks by artists of diferent epochs, and place them in a new organic whole, alluding (sometimes interrogatively and sometimes ironocally) to what a certain artist and his work meant once and what they mean today.

Being ironical in relation to the reality, the hyper - realism is also intersting for its paradoxical tautological nature.

Another aspect is the feeling of alienation and irreality. The painted work also has pictoral, tactical artistic values and an aura that in the age of the digital technology becomes a kind of a curiosity.


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