ARTchipel Artist Christos Kourtoglou | Christos Kourtoglou on ARTchipel.com (Greece) • Tell us in few words about you. I’m a collage maker, illustrator and designer from Athens, Greece. I’m a member of the Indyvisuals Design Collective. My personal work has to do mostly with collage, handmade and digital. • What motivated you to become an artist?I have a long way to go to really consider myself an artist. I was creative since I was a kid, then I grew up and there were record covers, posters, graffiti, DaDa, rock, punk, piraeus’ folk suburbs, rebetiko, Jim Jarmusch, the 60’s, Basquiat, Max Ernst, and many many more, all kinds of different things that made an impact, transformed and motivated me to do what I do today. • What are your work process and techniques? A stack of magazines, cut and paste, acrylics and markers (not particularly with this order). It’s almost the same when going digital, I just move to Photoshop and use handmade brushes and scanned images. • What are your ideal conditions for work? Impossible to work without music, especially in my loud neighborhood… I usually work from noon till early night and smoke like a maniac. • What inspires and provokes imagination in you? Dada still inspires me. Literature too. What I see everyday on the Internet. But I must say that inspiration is a little bit misunderstood. I mean that if, in general, you have a system of working and get your ass down to work then the result will come eventually. • Does your work reflect your person? Not really… But subconscious is a bitch, isn’t it? • The adjective that best describes you? Old fashioned? • The word you prefer? Desaturate! (interview with artist by ARTchipel Dec-2011) [more Christos Kourtoglou | Christos Kourtoglou on ARTchipel.com]

ARTchipel Artist

Christos Kourtoglou | Christos Kourtoglou on ARTchipel.com (Greece)

• Tell us in few words about you.
I’m a collage maker, illustrator and designer from Athens, Greece. I’m a member of the Indyvisuals Design Collective. My personal work has to do mostly with collage, handmade and digital.

• What motivated you to become an artist?
I have a long way to go to really consider myself an artist. I was creative since I was a kid, then I grew up and there were record covers, posters, graffiti, DaDa, rock, punk, piraeus’ folk suburbs, rebetiko, Jim Jarmusch, the 60’s, Basquiat, Max Ernst, and many many more, all kinds of different things that made an impact, transformed and motivated me to do what I do today.

• What are your work process and techniques?
A stack of magazines, cut and paste, acrylics and markers (not particularly with this order). It’s almost the same when going digital, I just move to Photoshop and use handmade brushes and scanned images.

• What are your ideal conditions for work?
Impossible to work without music, especially in my loud neighborhood… I usually work from noon till early night and smoke like a maniac.

• What inspires and provokes imagination in you?
Dada still inspires me. Literature too. What I see everyday on the Internet. But I must say that inspiration is a little bit misunderstood. I mean that if, in general, you have a system of working and get your ass down to work then the result will come eventually.

• Does your work reflect your person?
Not really… But subconscious is a bitch, isn’t it?

• The adjective that best describes you?
Old fashioned?

• The word you prefer?
Desaturate!

(interview with artist by ARTchipel Dec-2011)

[more Christos Kourtoglou | Christos Kourtoglou on ARTchipel.com]

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