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Amazon Art installation by The Krank Artbase Festival, Berlin 2019

“Abandonment”

Art intervention by The Krank

Why did you choose to live, at least at this phase in Berlin and not in another European city?

I first came to Berlin as a visitor in the summer of 2009 and I realized that it had what I needed the most Art, architecture, lifestyle, different rhythms and cultures, nature and overall the energy the city emits are signs of an unexplored mental peace. After my return and the upcoming cultural shock, Athens looked like an urban swamp that was mostly flooded by mentally fragmented residents in a system that was dysfunctional and leading to a more general social recession. Since then, I spent almost four years in Neos Kosmos in Athens until I decided it was time to leave.

On the spontaneity of the age and in the context of survival, I made the decision to leave everything behind me and restart my life on a fertile ground.

I traveled and got to know several European cities, but they didn’t manage to win me as much as Berlin. It’s an odd, almost erotic, bond that only if you have stayed in this city can you understand it since you are in a continuous process of discovery and integration.

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Your job is a sequence of typographic elements in smaller or larger surfaces. Are there any messages - points that do you’d want to communicate?

My work is mostly based on typography and abstract art. I combine in the same space and time the conscious, using the written speech, with the unconscious, through the abstract expressionism. Behind the written content there is a series of collaborating links that encrypt the message and are intended for a deeper interpretation on a second reading level. It’s a continuous process that’s complemented by obscene movements and gestures, manifesting effortlessly personal feelings that create in the artwork parallel narrative performances and conceivable horizons. This mechanism works in projects and installations in the urban environment with photographic and geometric harmony.

My ideology revolves around consciousness and man. Through the projects I implement, I try to cultivate an ethical state within the complex structure of modern life, aiming at a deeper understanding of the real. Modern Western civilization is characterized by selfishness, lack of braveness and conscious-indifference. I think it’s my duty to capture in my art the most sincere interpretation of the world by opening up a dialogue for alternative visions.

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