Joint exhibitions of authorial duos are a quite common phenomenon, and it often occurs that such unifications are established thanks to mutual ideological ways of thinking, or contrariwise, formal contrasts, or simply put, personal affinity. Exhibits of collaborative...
Robo Kočan says he connects parallel worlds. He balances the noise of the city with the silence of nature, he casts doubt on reality through fiction, and draws light into darkness. He often travels, travelling around for meditation and the diversity of other countries...
Sometime before, while working on another project I wrote that everything that is important in life is born, created as a result of serious, inevitable encounters – meetings of people, creators, events, impulses, experiences, approaches. The resulting work is...
KOČAN´S PHOTO-GAMES „Photography is visual science-fiction, intuition, dream, frozen time and space.“ (Ikko Narahara in catalogue Contemporary Photography, New York, 1982) Staged photography in Slovakia was century represented since the mid-80s of the 20th by...
The resurrection of the salamander. The cultural science metaphors of the creative work of Robo Kocan. Irina Tchmyreva, PhD, Moscow Museum of Modern Art Central Europe is full of mysteries and secrets. But they are not only in the past. Sorcerers did not cease to...
Imaginary landscapes titled as Stories By Night-Light were created while in artist-residency at SPACES. But unlike Kočan´s previous works, these landscapes are imaginary. Here, angels, demons, goddesses, and ghosts emerge from the shadows of dreamy, unidentified...
