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Kostas Seremetis (born December 7, 1972 in Boston, MA) is an American painter, sculptor and filmmaker. Born to Greek immigrants from the Laconia region in Greece (Krokeaí, Sparta). Highly influenced by comic book art, animation cartoons, graffiti art of the 1980s, Greek mythology and contemporary masters. Known for using the comic book popular pulp characters as typography in order to express a visual language in mediums such as paintings, collage, sculptures and films. By the time he was 30 he has established a large international following, by exhibiting his art worldwide mainly in Tokyo, New York, Berlin and Paris. ==Art== Seremetis started exhibiting at the age of 19 in Boston. He moved to New York in 1996. In 1994, Seremetis was commissioned by the Warner Bros. Studio Store, where he had 3 sold-out exhibitions. in 2005, participated in "Street Urchins", curated by Ronnie Cutrone in Casola Gallery in Peekskill, NY. (). In 2006, was commissioned by director Darren Aronofsky amongst 10 other artists to review The Fountain, a commission that was published in the New York Times The Fountain#Marketing. His work was shown in the Parco Museum in Tokyo for a solo exhibition Superhero and six, () the Triennale Museum, Milan, and Museum of the City of Mexico, and is in private collections worldwide. In 2008, he showed in the exhibition "Lo Hi", a group exhibitions among artists like Gerhard Richter and Jean-Michel Basquiat at Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. In 2011, he participated in "Kindergarten" exhibition, curated by Giorgio de Mitri, 17th century palazzina dei giardini in Modena, Italy. Alongside other international artists: Futura 2000, Mode2, Os Gêmeos, Tom Sachs (artist) and Boris Tellegen (aka Delta). (). he also had a solo exhibition in Mexico city in 2011, "Human Kind" at Anonymous Gallery, and participated in a group show in 2009 with Ronnie Cutrone, Rammellzee and Rostarr. (). Seremetis was selected by Spotify to create a large scale mural for the new NYC Spotify office. Seremetis created a large Spiderman painting. (). He has also made a few collaborations with clothing company Stussy. (). Seremetis contributed to comic book artist Paul Pope's Escapo. () The book will be published this summer. () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kostas Seremetis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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