Untitled, Pen-Up (Man)

Description

Kiuranov become well-known for his pop-art series of limited edition prints, “Untitled, Pen-Up”. The series encompasses visual codes from both popular and high culture. The composition is based on the kinetic image of a ballpoint pen which, when turned up and down, presents in turn a picture of a woman first dressed, then naked. That kind of images were being smuggled into socialist Bulgaria from the West, in rare ballpoints, holograph pictures, etc. They were highly valued in mass culture and became part of the popular city folklore. Such images functioned as a kind of visual dialect of the highbrow art language. The work is a photomontage, in which the change of the pictures is photographed at 15 stop shots.
The highly professional photography, conceptualize the triviality of the original image and transforms it into a contemporary work of art. The intentionally faded colours work for the intended retro-effect and add a historic time dimension