Boris Sirka (1981) belongs to the new generation of Slovakian painters after 2000. He pertains to a group of so called „Mac generation“ (fed on Macintosh and McDonald’s Big Mac) growing up in a hybrid masmedial and TV mass and „flesh“ culture (too much flesh, blood, murderous erotic and branded goods to be gobbled up) but for all that still preferring painting media. He transcribes various visual data into a new painting language, into a language of hanging pictures. The internet, video games, comics, death metal, horror movies and animated porn hentai, electro-clash, pop and hip hop, streetwear, sado masochism, neo gothic, necroromantism, cyber-punk and other sewerages of visually excitatory world can be found in his work. The innocence and nuisance, rumours and sprees, redemption and condemnation, red and black cross, low colts and high heels are rapidly changing and complementing each other in his painting sequences. Everything is non-scandalously cuddlesome like an all-purpose silicone – filling young breasts, old-fashioned baths or fenestral links and can’t come unstuck. Sirka represents nearly „lethal dose“ of contemporary painting. On the one hand he brings about a strong onslaught of hot visuality of high tension and on the other hand he feeds on a decomposing spirit of low, cutesy or trashy culture.
Viktor Frešo a Vladimír Beskid
