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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 tune with our particular lifestyles and anti-consumerist convictions.
— a shelter for wandering taoist 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 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. Acidpluto (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, and 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 like to speak Western 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 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 all day and not talk much, since body language is more better than words. And the winters are more soft than in the Mother Land and the summers too. And the food is more better and plentiful, with a lot of unheard of vegetables from the monastery garden where he works almost every day as long as possible.
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)
The Tzu family (Lao, Chuang & Lieh) • Gomi Taro • Hieronymus Bosch • Chrono Trigger • Li Po • Crass • Silence • Open source software • The Book of Changes • Jim Dodge • Hasui • Sadako the witch • Disco Qi Gong • The Zhi-Xen hillsides • Boiling water • Fungal tea • Kougezan Koukiji • Anything with zombies • The love of a wife • The physics of yam & yeung • Shades of black • Smart people saying stupid things • Thangka painting • Femur hair ornaments • Hikikomori-style cocooning • Scar tissues (all kinds) • Histories of the Prehistory • Medieval torture techniques • Art Brut • People with two different eye colours, not counting David Bowie • Imperial Jade tea • The Conet Project • Tuvan throat singing • Woolen garments • Talking in dialects • Shamanistic shampoo jingles • Forgotten pasts • Halloween movie night specials • The Residents • Hieroglyphics • All things ghastly • 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 • Kasamatsu Shiro • The monastery cats • Keeping stacks of unread philosophy books unread • Exotic afflictions of the skin • Tampopo • Voyages through the insides of the human body • People with huge sideburns, not counting women • Cherry blossom • Pictures of skulls • Making things work the wrong way • Giles Goatboy • Molten cheese (except gruyère) • Growing hair long • Fei-Yue footwear (the next best thing to walking barefoot) • ZSNES • Faxed Head • Sleep deprivation • Playing music backwards • Erik Satie • Chinese food in bulk • …
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