Kostas Gogas' work has always been focused on defining, presenting and understanding the self.
His work explores individualism, existentialism and emotions through breakthroughs, originality and freedom of form.
Setting the new foundations. In complete contrast with my working style so far. I start to create my art by setting the vision and implementing what's needed in order to deliver upon it. The current period is filled with strong vision, bold new directions and excercising excellence.
A work that is unique on its own right, a new artform. This really pushes the limit of what I believe an artist's obligation is to the world. To deliver, independently, the unthinkable, something that no one asked him for.
Getting serious on completing fiction work to the desired standards. Going away from long stories for a while in order to achieve a more brutal editing.
'The Disappearance' is a short short story by multimedia artist Kostas Gogas narrating a morning of an unnamed protagonist who discovers that the neighbor he aggressively watches everyday is not at home. It's an existential story of boredom in modern times.
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The Couch is a short short absurd existential story by artist Kostas Gogas about a Man going blind for no apparent reason.
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Μια παράνοια του Κώστα Γκόγκα γραμμένη όπως να 'ναι, ότι να 'ναι, όπου να 'ναι, και γενικά κάνει ότι γουστάρει. Βιβλίο είναι να πούμε.
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Slowly and stubbornly working on the tiniest details aiming to create works that reflect my desire for serious craftsmanship while preserving my focus on the initial vision.
An erotic artwork about a bunch of bubble-gum people doing dirty things to each other.
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Myth is a narrative story in the form of a drawing. It depicts the journey of a small boat leaving behind ancient glories for a virgin island.
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'Cosmonaut' A Supernatural Encounter blocking the Way to Wisdom. Work in Progress of a Mixed Media drawing by Greek Artist Kostas Gogas.
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A high desire for small things and finding the little worlds that kept unseen.
Where I reinvent myself again, getting rid of my preconceptions around art. I start to work on abstract visual work then move on to influence my video and my music work. Then I have another breakthrough towards new media, where the intangible becomes a major focus.
Finally found a way to use my digital skills to produce fine art, and with the help of a digital pen I started to action-paint directly on the digital canvas. This was another breakthrough for me, as I wanted to get rid of value notions related to the material and explore the intellectual capital provided by the artist.
All my artistic background would finally found its way into my video work. I figured that music videos were an open field for more aesthetic work, something no one had really explored (the same I believe for music).
Following the 'Headache' mindset, this was a music video focused on minimalism, in terms of color, camera placement, acting and editing.
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A video work that was never released but was the first time were I really had managed to create something original, combining cubism influences with abstraction to create a minimal video work with the illusion of no cuts in the montage.
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In retrospect I can see that this video was the bridge between my early video work and the videos I produced from then on. It acted as the catalyst to experiment on and also helped me realize that I must have way more time to work on things if I wanted to create something that would be, not only new, but refined and completed too.
I created some experimental music between 2010-2014, I didn't want to actually produce anymore, it was too much work and I didn't want to do it, I only wanted to direct the production. I trusted 'Start Rec' to produce our next album, but only one track was completed - the other tracks were produced here and there, mostly between 2011-2012.
A period where I found out that my working-class upbringing had really influenced my perception of what art is, I wanted to get rid of that, so with courage alone in the beginning I entered the abstract world.
Created this series of small abstract shape paintings using acrylics, watercolors, gouache and ink.
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Experimenting with abstract expressionism, this series of paintings were produced in my first ever studio, making use of the freedom to spread colors everywhere.
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There were many smaller artworks created in this period, continuous-lines, drawings etc. They weren't made for a specific project, they were rather experiments for exploring other directions.
Not being able to rest on my my successes at the moment, I wanted to push the envelope, first by working on a feature film, and then by getting acquainted with English speaking work. This period's works were a big failure, but because I can't stand doing the same mistake ever again, it would prove to be the cornerstone from here then on. I am styding and planning thoroughly my future film & prose work ever since.
Oh my, oh my. Until today I haven't get comfortable with the biggest failure of my career. So many people, so much money, all lead to nothing, not even the movie itself. Having learned to work on way smaller projects until then, I found myself on a nightmare of expectations from myself and from everyone else. Failing to complete the film in any resemblance to the original script's intention had cost me very much until today. Produced on a shoe-string budget (€4,700), produced, directed and written by me.
Wanted to write in English, the fail fast mentality get me going. I wrote the book in one week and it's almost unreadable for English natives.
A period of blooming creativity, nailing down work I have been trying to do for many years. A personal period of education (reading one book after another) and studying Graphic Design (where my love for art history & theory began and influences my work hereafter).
Where I start really developing personal style and creating art way more aware of herself. As well as focusing in producing work away from teams.
As a heavy pencil-on-paper artist for most of my career, I never spent a thought until now to focus exclusively on producing art on paper that will have value on its own. That's what I did here.
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Starting to produce art with one continuous line. A style I came up with on Christmas 2007.
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A series of paintings were I created art with the least: only cheap black or white homepaint and painted on found surfaces like cardboards and wooden boards.
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Eager to explore painting on a canvas I set out to create one canvas per week for one year.
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These drawings were created here and there before I finally turned to more serious work on paper.
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In this period I also created some minimal drawings with pen or pencil, eager to depict simple pictures with the least effort, straight to the point, sweet and elegant.
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From 2007 I wasn't really working on graffiti anymore but I created some works on walls until 2012. My graffiti starts to resemble painting in this period. I have completely abandoned spraypaint and don't paint ordinary graffiti themes anymore.
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The nature of the continuous-line method was really asking for digital coloring, I came up with the solution of using the digital-tracing technology to produce vectors out of them, as well as using recently introduced tools that made it easy to paint them quickly. I started producing some digital artworks that gave the continuous line drawings more depth and most importantly: color. This was the only way I could think of for keeping intact the automatic nature of the one line as well as having color.
Produced three hip-hop albums. I worked heavily on those, working across all aspects, production-wise and artistic wise: sound-mixing, lyrics writing, rap, music composition, art direction of releases.
Third & Final music album by Ansia. Focused on rhythms, streets and hip-hop. With electro & funk vibes. It was also the first ever underground Hip-Hop double album.
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The second album of Ansia was the also the most successful and the most personal. With a variety of rhythmic styles and genres 'Chameleon' tried to reach people outside the hip-hop realm and bring them inside.
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The first album officially released by Ansia. It acts as an introduction to our group and establishes the cornerstones of our approach: we will be the first underground hip-hop group to release Music Videos or offer Beatifully Lyric Booklets along with our tracks.
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Music videos on a shoe-string budget, trying to make my hip-hop group to be the first underground band in Greece to have music-videos. And one surreal short. Proud of my work here, though not personal style existed yet.
One of my favorite music videos, the first and only for 'Cult-87'. It is black and white, raw, urban, handheld, free and straight to the point. The aesthetics were exactly as they should be. Fan fact: this video was copied by others after we released it.
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The second video for 'Chameleon' was for 'Harlequin', an intro song from the album that while we weren't sure about it when we released it, it made quite an impact on our audience and that influenced the decision of making a video for it. I still get praise for this one.
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The first music video for 'Chameleon' was an upbeat song & a video full of colors and everyday sets.
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Trying to create the first music video for an underground band in Greece, I was determined to make it work.
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My first short film was a silent surreal short about two ego maniacs antagonizing each other until one of them kills the other.
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Created a 35' film in black and white with very few characters and sets, my first taste of narrative film. Did everything myself except the acting and the music.
Where I wrote my first novel in 3-4 weeks at the end of August of 2008, trying to boostrap my way in narrative prose.
Meeting other 'professional' graffiti artists at the time helped me expand my horizons and leave behind any preconceptions around my working style, started to trust the collaborative process and embrace new point of views.
Met other artists and started working together, a boost in creativity and technique, also turning away from styles ('letters') towards more character heavy work.
Having a PC for the first time in 2005, I started experimenting.
Three comic characters for Ansia, one for each member.
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Created a 2 page comic for a competition of the Greek Comic Magazine '9'. It wasn't even praised (but I don't really remember if I did submitted it).
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Created this funny design for a t-shirt based on a 'name' I used to tag with for a small period.
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Playing around with my first computer. Most of these works were based on sketches on paper.
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Graffiti. Where for the first time in my life I find something that I know I will continue to do. In the light of what came afterwards, it was something that helped me navigate my life's path.
Heavily influenced by other artists at the time, I started to sketch on paper, organized a graffiti team, and paint every sunday. I also did commission work.
From nothing to good. My first graffiti work was about getting started, getting up, get going and generally fighting my way through everything.
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My first sketches was mainly focused on graffiti. From 2001 until today, paper and pencil remain my best friends.
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