Blo Kirilov – Anti-Iconography Artist | Modern Byzantine Deconstruction & Radical Sacred Art

Blo Kirilov is a contemporary visual artist known for pioneering Anti-Iconography — a radical reinterpretation of traditional Orthodox icon painting. Fusing Byzantine aesthetics with avant-garde rebellion, Kirilov challenges sacred conventions through experimental materials, reverse techniques, and a confrontational visual language.

Inspired by postmodernism, Eastern mysticism, and countercultural symbolism, Blo’s work explores the boundaries of spirituality, identity, and iconographic authority. Each piece deconstructs familiar religious forms, revealing new meanings through distortion, layering, and irony.

Blo’s icons are not meant to be venerated, but questioned. Gold halos crack, saints wear business suits, divine light turns digital. These artworks are portals — not to heaven, but to a conversation about belief, aesthetics, and the sacred in the post-religious world.

With a growing cult following among collectors of subversive sacred art, Blo Kirilov’s creations have been described as "Byzantine meets punk mysticism" and "a theology of disruption through paint.