Kris Marko

Kris Marko was born in 1975 from a modest suburban working class background in former Yugoslavia and was educated in France culture. Kris Marko began his artistic life as a comic book illustrator under the pseudonym Dikeuss. After the end of this first chapter of his artistic career and a short stint in Africa, he eventually settled in Cambodia. 

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His art is characterized by collages and symbolism elements. Through his art, he tries to open a dialogue with the unconscious part of the mind and reveal unsaid things which will appear on his painting. 

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From his first years in the Slavic Orthodox world, he inscribed in his aesthetic memory the rich lines and shapes found in religious icons, often gilded and catching the light in a sometimes dark or disturbing decorum.

The encounter with Khmer art, also made of very detailed curves and shapes which almost look like embroidery, inspired him a pictorial style which is a mixture of the two aesthetics.