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Boris Sirka
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Mail: boris.sirka@gmail.com
Year/Place of Birth: 1981 - Snina - SR
Education: Faculty of Art, Technical University in Kosice, Studio of Graphic and Experimental Art (R. Sikora)
“Sirka represents a nearly “lethal dose” of contemporary decorative art. On one side, he is bringing a strong wave of hot, high voltage visual effects, on the other hand he is feeding on a decomposing spirit of low, garbage, junk culture. The artist is fully aware of the fact that he is opening Pandora’s Box, a notorious thirteenth room, and takes us through the underground dark waters of thinking. His paintings present a gentle touch of exorcism, a sensitive mix of a sophisticated class of painting with decadent forms of alternative subculture. The influence of comics, animations, horror and terror, erotic and zombie movies in Sirka’s work is transformed into powerfully creative artistic stories. Early happy scenes full of irony, with burning pop colourings and a boosting plot; with naïve characters having big round eyes reminding Japanese mango animations or anima series are replaced by provocative and subversive painting elements- blood, heart, red crosses, nuns. Night love, and nightmare at the same time, god blessed pleasure and temptation from hell, ever-burning desire of insatiable Eros. Then there are gloomy scenes with a dark slate colour background with a woman’s head in its centre, engaged in an erotic moment of sucking melancholic spirits of penis. In the latest collection, the artist’s composition has calmed down, colours have brightened up and burst into bloom, the vast coloured plains have cleared up, representing an easy ride of decadent ecstasy. There are new characteristic motifs and stories that are presented in paintings: a redheaded fashion model as a witch, tired Siamese double heads, wild flames in eyes and hair, alternating with three levitating skulls with blowing hair, etc. The artist is spinning his artistic narrative by help of a filiform contour line, with massive coloured areas in the background.” (-zVB-)
SOLO EXHB
2008 Bratislava (Boris Sirka- Kressling Gallery)
COLLECTIVE EXHB.
2007 Nitra (K.O.MIX – Nitra Gallery)
2007 Prague (Make It Up- AVU Gallery)
2007 Trnava (Skuter, Biennial Show of Young Slovak Art- Jan Koniarik Gallery)
2007 Kosice (East of Eden- Moonride Festival)
2007 Poland- Slovakia- Rumania- Hungary- Ukraine
2007 Triennale of Painting: (ARP Gallery in Premysl, BWA Gallery in Rzeszow, Eastern Slovak Gallery in Kosice, Tarii Crisurilor Museum in Oradea, Deri Museum in Debrecen, Art Information Centre of Fine Arts Academy in Lvov)
2007 Medzilaborce (Mapping- Andy Warhol Museum)
2007 Kosice (Kanoczova-Sirka-Zakova-Vojtech Loffler’s Museum)
2007 Brno (PitoreSKa, About Contemporary Slovak Painting- Wannieck Gallery)
2006 Zilina (New Generation, Povazie Gallery)
2006 Kosice (Diploma Works Show- Eastern Slovak Gallery)
2006 Bratislava (Man-Hero-Spirit-Machine, Medium Gallery)
2005 Bratislava (Stop Domestic Violence, Old Market Place)
2005 Heilbronn (Skart.sk-Kunstverein)
