Businessmen are reborn as biomechanical insects. Beautiful and battle-ravaged woman/weapon hybrids haunt desolate landscapes. Such is the duality that infuses Viktor Koen's weird artwork. Many of his figures are caught in the middle of some devastating transformation, or at the moment when the hidden becomes the apparent and the imagined becomes shockingly real. To Koen, everything contains a hidden nature, everything is constantly changing, and that's what makes his work so grimly fascinating—he sees this inner nature, and he shares his unflinching vision with us. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Koen holds degrees from the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem and from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He's a New Yorker, now, with an astounding litany of awards, exhibits, and high-profile clients. His method underscores the transformative motif: his work itself has evolved from classical roots into a hybrid of digital and traditional forms, yielding images at once phantasmagorical and all too believable.
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