The following article was published in N-SPHERE May 2009 issue.
Name: Kleanthis Paraskevopoulos
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Occupation: Ex-pharmacist (until 2000), freelance graphic designer (part-time), but mostly labour and paperwork multitasking within a matrix of family circumstances (full time)
Definition of personal sphere: I combat accelerating windmills
Artwork in 4 words: Reverse Post-Dream Engineering
What is inspirational for you: Trains, downtown cities, errors in speech, misreading, mistyping, false punctuation,chinese spam, the absurd lag of time between the body waking up and the brain correspondingly following.
Currently favourite artists: George Méliès, Matthew Barney, PJ Harvey, Mike Leigh, Lars Von Trier, Salvador Dali, Monty Pythons
Tools of trade: Broken / amputated toys, anything from bitten fruit to pyjamas, retro print (magazines, brochures, product catalogues, encyclopaedias, realpeople’s correspondence 1900–1950s), photoshop (and some illustrator or corel draw), pen tool and patience
Current obsessions: Russian constructivism, dada, surrealism, art nouveau, human / machine interaction, trash tv, dark cabaret genre, 1920s music boxes, recording own music, the balkans, geography, deserted mines, artificial intelligence, quantum physics, nanotechnology, mast cells
Personal temptation: Casshew nuts
Artwork: Lady Ovarrea
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