Filko Stano 1937–2015

Untitled, 1991

acrylic, canvas, 210 × 99 cm, signed. UD S. St. R. Filko - 1981
Stano Filko is one of the most prominent and important personalities Slovak avant-garde conceptual art after the war. His work developed in the sixties and seventies in the field of conceptual art, happening, performative and environmental actions, associated with his own cosmological visions and manifestos. Filko used his own colour symbolism as a metaphor for his philosophical interpretation of the world. Red signifies biological space, green symbolizes the socio-political space meant to be shared, white is the color contemplation, ontological space and metaphysics, blue denotes cosmic space, which is always connected to human space, and black denotes the colour of the individual, the space of the subject. Between 1981 and 1990 he lived in exile in Germany and the USA. After returning to Slovakia, he created a unique artistic space from his studio defined by five different colours and life themes.