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SIBERIAN ANGEL ICON Artwork

Oleg Ikona

United Kingdom

Mixed Media, Oil on Wood

Size: 9.1 W x 9.8 H x 1.6 D in

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About The Artwork

This Interactive icon with the sad angel painted at the center is dedicated to the family of my grandmother Anna Voeikova, who lost most of her relatives in Siberian concentration camps during the 30th and 50th. The inner room of an icon build in the glorious shape of Soviet star which is not typical for a classic iconography school using a strictly rectangular shape. The icon symbolises destiny of people banished by Soviet authorities to the Siberian concentration camps in the middle of emptiness. The cool and archaic melody that appears by pressing the button presents prospective national hymn of Siberian Republic appearing in the near future. INSTRUCTIONS: Press the black button to listen peaceful music. Close your eyes to imagine Siberian wideness and extreme cold. Go with Trans Siberian Express to test distant Russian vagueness.

Details & Dimensions

Mixed Media:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:9.1 W x 9.8 H x 1.6 D in

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Born in the USSR. Studied in Russia and UK. Live and work in London. I create icons, but my forms of iconography are unlike any other. My icons are contemporary cultural hybrids; unusual, unnerving, stark and controversial. “Oleg's highly attractive ‘symbolic sculptures’ may not seem innocuous, but they are beguiling – and contain a myriad of tensions. He has transformed the art of icon making – the all-powerful nature of a created symbol – and tried to liberate the icons which pervade society, from their conventional roles. His art joins precise sacred paintings with interactive electronics, such as microchips, mobile phones, radios and plastic toys – juxtaposing religious iconography with modern consumerism. But the creating this symbiosis between the imagery of modern world and the religious myths, Oleg has created a new commentary on popular culture. His icons represent the changing times of our society, peoples attitudes, politics, and as he says “the unification of two polar things: old magic and new technologies.” The art which Oleg produces has the unique ability of provoking the mind and the heart, which makes it doubly combustible. What’s interesting is how our environment has become so pervaded with icons, so saturated with symbols which aren’t just revered, but also derided, spoofed, and mixed, that people seem to have become immune to any mixing that takes place, and can be comfortably indifferent to the amalgamation of sacred symbols.” Brandon Hooper Oleg Ikona has exhibited widely in Europe and America, bailed as a witty inventor, cosmopolitan and poetic; yet in Russia be encounters widespread State and Church criticism for the anti-religious morality of his work. At 2004 after religious attacks on his art he left Russia for UK as refugee. His studio with art works in St. Petersburg burned down a month after he escaped. No one found guilty.

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