Roy Kill
Roy Kill

Roy Kill

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Robert karl illiovÁri
Roy Kill
‘The Bearable Being
of Lightness’
from sunday 16.03 —⁠ 03.05

Robert Karl Illiovári, known under the pseudonym Roy Kill, is a Swiss-Bulgarian painter and draughtsman who moves through the world as both witness and fugitive, lingering where opulence meets oblivion. A restless observer of the exquisite debris of the beau monde, he drifts through Zurich, Monaco, Palm Springs, and Medellín’s most rarefied enclaves, never quite belonging. His chosen subjects speak not of what is permanent, but of what is destined to vanish.

Roy Kill’s oeuvre captures the essence of superficiality, wrenching it from its deepest roots and laying it bare on canvas and paper. Rejecting all pretence of profundity, he has no interest in depth, only in the echoes of surfaces—an aesthetician of the void, a chronicler of gloss. His work elevates ephemerality to the status of permanence, treating the fleeting not as something to mourn but as the only enduring truth worth preserving. Both decadent and incisive, it is an homage to the beautiful ugliness of our impermanent minds and world.

Though quite active in the 1970s, Roy Kill never sought the stage, avoiding both the critical spotlight and the gravitational pull of fame. His sudden disappearance from the scene only deepened the mystery—was he too close to discovery, too disinterested to seize it? Or was he hiding something, a man who walked the thin line between observer and voyeur, capturing the world with a gaze that is both detached and intimate?

What we do know is this: he never stopped drawing. His tools—ink, brushes, and a pocketful of pencils—always within reach, ready to commit a moment to paper before it dissolves into memory. He does not refine; he does not reconsider. The first stroke remains, uncorrected, unrepentant. His surfaces become immediate sites of execution, each piece spontaneous, unburdened by hesitation, untouched by regret.

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Volman _01

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Volman _01

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Cazenave_02

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Cazenave_02

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Davidson _03

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Davidson _03

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Spaulding _04

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Spaulding _04

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Rex _05

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Rex _05

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Ray _012

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Ray _012

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Charles _013

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Charles _013

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Kemper _014

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Kemper _014

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Nomland _015

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Nomland _015

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Walker _016

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Walker _016

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Craig _017

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Craig _017

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Donn _018

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Donn _018

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Knorr _019

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Knorr _019

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Buff _020

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Buff _020

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Hensman _021

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Hensman _021

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Untitled _022

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Untitled _022

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Sumner _023

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Sumner _023

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Koenig _024

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Koenig _024

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Untitled _037

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Untitled _037

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Eichler _038

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Eichler _038

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Triad_039

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Triad_039

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Stahl _040

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Stahl _040

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Theodore _041

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Theodore _041

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Bass _042

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Bass _042

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Fields _043

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Fields _043

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West _044

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West _044

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Salzman _045

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Salzman _045

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Soriano_025

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Soriano_025

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Wurster _06

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Wurster _06

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Bernardi _07

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Bernardi _07

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Rapson _08

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Rapson _08

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R. Smith _09

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R. Smith _09

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Richard _010

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Richard _010

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Abell _011

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Abell _011

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Brady _026

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Brady _026

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Assoc _027

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Assoc _027

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Quincy_028

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Quincy_028

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Emmons _029

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Emmons _029

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Thorne _030

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Thorne _030

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Wong_031

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Wong_031

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Pacific _032

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Pacific _032

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Janss _033

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Janss _033

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Whitmore _034

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Whitmore _034

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Frank _035

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Frank _035

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Untitled _036

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Untitled _036

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Alpha _046

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Alpha _046

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Lath_047

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Lath_047

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Entenza _048

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Entenza _048

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Omega_049

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Omega_049

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Greenbelt_050

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Greenbelt_050

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