The theme of my works is Sin.

Not the Sinful human nature, but Sin as an official ideology (social practice).

The underlying idea is to show cynicism as the refuge of the weak and defenseless human being, the sole possibility for men to accept life.

These sculptures and drawings confess our inability to distinguish (our unwillingness and helplessness to differentiate) between good and evil, truth and untruth, sin and righteousness.

I wanted to present the moral values as a sort of “landslide”.

Hopeless and thoughtless lead to cynicism. Vulgarity and triteness can transform into basic aesthetic category.

By means of cynicism and triteness I am referring to:

- the infantilism of “good”

- the universality of “evil”

- our need to believe in untruth

- our inability to accept the truth

- the transformation of the vulgar into the beautiful

My works are not directed against woman, they are not directed against Sin.

They are about Sin.

 

Spartak Dermendjiev 1997