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— a fully equipped and fully staffed modern graphic studio, dedicated to the manufacturing of brightly colored, yet thematically somewhat eccentric pictures of the floating world, info- and typographics, packaging designs, leaflets, brochures, pamphlets and books; our commissioned work is mostly focused on arts, culture, education and other non-profit causes, in harmony with our particular lifestyles.
— a warm shelter for wandering monks, martial arts instructors, spare-time pathologists, daisypickers, vegan cooks, flute-playing shepherds, slightly aging anarcho-punks, ascetics and other zealots, off-season theme park enthusiasts and maggot-infested zombies, united by their mutual intrests and passions.
— also known as Kobbyhuan & Kobbytron, KHUAN Cavemen Co., Kwan Tung Lo, The Long Johns Of Yore and/or Yonder, The Abominable Tribe of Long-Haired Goons, The Daruma Crew, and finally, since the advent of Mixail Mitmalka, The Kargasok Clan.
(NTD) Ningtiendo Sehgah (Japan, born 1976) was
raised by his aunt in Belgium with all the trades of a modern Japanese
upbringing: manga, computer games, fluorescent sweets and double school
hours. At eightteen, he left for Antwerp to study the noble graphic
arts, and started distilling his trademark stylings from his slightly
frenzied education. After ten years on the job, he still feels like
he's only just starting — so much more to learn and see and do.
(STBZ) Steebz a.k.a. ACPL (Belgium, born 1976)
"Half of what I am is what I do — today. The rest of what I
am is what I ate — yesterday. It passes through me;
that's why they call it the past. No need to make a big deal
of that."
(MXM) Mikail Mitmalka (Russia, born 1972) is newest
member of KTRON team and likes to speak European in gruff
monosyllables to show he comes from elsewhere. Big strong man with arms
like trees, but small heart for inside. Mikail is great-great-grandson
of Wladimir Mitmalka, famous in his home town for painting grand icons
with gold; Mikail
is self-schooled in drawing and painting with nostalgic feeling. Since
short time Mikail lives and works in KHUAN monastery and he likes this
very much, because there he may draw and paint and meditate long time
and
not talk much, since body language is more better than words. Chop
woods for the stoves. Scare off monastery trespassers and wild animals.
And the
winters are more soft than in the Mother Land and the summers too. And
the food is more better and more plentiful, with a lot of unknown
vegetables from the monastery garden where he works too, under the sun
and under the moon.
1997 — Group Show (Riemst, Belgium)
1998 — What’s Your Excuse (Mekanik, Antwerp,
Belgium)
2000 — U hoort nog van ons (Z33, Hasselt,
Belgium)
2002 — Open Monastery Day — Monks Work (Zhi-Xen
Monastery)
2004 — Open Monastery Day — Pictures Of The
Floating World (Zhi-Xen Monastery)
2006 — Freaky People (Sint-Petersburg,
Russia)
2006 — Wild Vlees (CC, Hasselt, Belgium)
2007 — Open Monastery Day — All Is Emptiness
(T’ien Yen Monastery)
2008 — KTRON Solo Show (Lucy, Antwerp,
Belgium)
2008 — InkThis 3: Facelift
(Leicester+London, UK)
2009 — Portraits & Landscapes (CC
Hasselt, Belgium)
2009 — Integrated 2009 (deSingel, Antwerp,
Belgium)
Gomi Taro • Hieronymus Bosch • Chrono Trigger • Li Po • Silence • Open source software • The Book of Changes • Jim Dodge • Hasui • Sadako the witch • Disco Qi Gong • The Zhi-Xen hillsides • Masayuki Takayagi • Boiling water • Fungal tea • Jean-Claude Vandamme's sidekick in Bloodsport • Alpiner bonbons • Kougezan Koukiji • Anything with zombies • Waiting for public transportation • The love of a wife • The physics of yam & yeung • Shades of black • Smart people saying stupid things • Thangka painting • Femur hair ornaments • People who are turned inside out• Hikikomori-style cocooning • Scar tissues (all kinds) • Histories of the Prehistory • Refined primitivism • Medieval torture techniques • Art Brut • People with two different eye colours, not counting David Bowie • Invisible people • Imperial Jade tea • The Conet Project • Tuvan throat singing • Planning road trips • Himalayan brownies • Woolen garments • Talking in dialects • Shamanistic shampoo jingles • Forgotten pasts • Gérard Grisey • Halloween movie night specials • The rock eating madman down the block • The Residents • Hieroglyphics • All things ghastly • Seeing the Middle Path winding, far off in the distance • Made-up religion zealots • Free jazz • Bad English • Black bean sauce • Mathematics • Sashimi Togarashi • Secret of Mana • Oozing tattoo wounds • Freshly plastered walls • Small stringed instruments • Printing methods of yore • Printing methods of the far future • Arvo Pärt • The monastery rooftop cats • Snail mail • Having spare limbs severed • Keeping stacks of unread philosophy books unread • Puzzling maps of imaginary places • Exotic afflictions of the skin • Tampopo • Voyages through the insides of the human body • Sabu Orimo • The distant sound of lawn mowing • Vegan Mongolian cuisine • People with huge sideburns, not counting women • The Tze family (Lao, Chuang & Lieh) • Cherry blossom • Pictures of skulls • Making things work the wrong way • Crass • Giles Goatboy • Molten cheese (except gruyère) • Growing hair long • Luciano Cilio • Fei-Yue footwear (the next best thing to walking barefoot) • ZSNES • Faxed Head • Severe sleep deprivation • Playing music backwards • …
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