Rich photographic creation, creativity, high technical expertise, experimentation (while creating his works Robo Kočan likes prolonging the photographic exposition, applying coloured filters, completing his works with drawings, colouring them; combining images...
Robo is nine years younger than me. We graduated from the same high school – Arts Industry in Košice – however when Robo enrolled, I had just left. I finished the Prague FAMU before the Velvet Revolution, while Robo became one of the first graduates of the...
In the early 90s, photographer Robo Kočan joins the Slovak photography scene. This is the period of his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, during which he already sets up exhibitions actively, and his photographs are a part of home and abroad art exhibits...
To whom it May Concern June 21, 2005 Re:REFERENCE LETTER FOR SLOVAK PHOTOGRAPHER – ROBO KOCAN Dear Sir / Madam: Robo Kocan is one of the most significant contemporary photographers in Slovakia – I have had an opportunity to follow his professional path since 1998 when...
Robo Kočan has the ability to “see the anticipated”. The anticipated and wanted, buried deeply in the subconsciousness, which transmits us through the “lines of light” of his photographs by means of an inconsiderate – ironic, but also...
In his work Robo Kocan combines a variety of aesthetic approaches in a rare ratio; the systematic method with an unceasing need to discover the novel, technical excellence with poetry, and an entertaining playfulness in combination with dark journeys into our...
