Kiril T. Konstantin was born in 1988, in Bitola (North Macedonia) He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, as the best student at the Department of Sculpture in 2013. In 2016, he received his Master’s degree from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje as a manager of human resources in culture. He works as an art teacher in a primary school, and is a member of DLUB. He has participated in 8 group exhibitions, 4 art colonies and 6 Erasmus+ projects.
Artist, sculptor, painter – Kiril draws inspiration for his works from nature, the play of colours and shadows, people, history and tradition.
Kiril participated in the Art Residency that took place in Novi Sad (Serbia) from 22 October 2018 to 22 November 2018, and focused on the local events of the Second World War (Novi Sad Raid) and their impact in the local community.
A wonderful experience, where I met wonderful people, who became my friends, and I learned many new things, both about art and history.
In this triptych, I use the “live”, “cheerful” colours, with which I want to symbolize a phoenix who is born again from its ashes, just as humanity needs to be born again in people, even after such a heinous event as the Novi Sad Raid, and the war itself.
Kiril got the inspiration for these works from the events that occurred in Novi Sad during the Second World War, the so-called Raid of Novi Sad in January 1942, when Hungarian Nazi cults brutally killed around 4000 civilians, most of them Serbs, Roma and Jewish. The killings were so brutal, that the civilians were carried to the frozen Danube, were fired at, and their bodies were thrown under the ice in the Danube.
With his work, he wants to present the horror and scream of war, the human madness, the inhumanity, the pain and the ashes that it leaves behind. But at the same time, to present the strength of true humanity that despite all the suffering and pain, is born again from the ashes, just like the phoenix, by learning from its mistakes, in an attempt to never repeat such heinous events as the Novi Sad Raid.
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