So when you think about a Greek who lives and works in New York city, you might probably come up with the notion of somebody whos working in one of Astoria's tavernas serving ouzo and mousaka.Well guess again. Representing at the other side of the sea, Kostas Seremetis is a pop artist who lives and works in the Big Apple. I found out about his work through his collaboration with Stussy coming up with the design of one of their varsity jackets. He started painting professionally around the beginning of the 00's and his work mostly portrays heroes and villains from comic books, depicting the eternal battle between good and evil. He is self taught and his work is graphically consistent, described as abstract expressionist popular art, a genre that makes use of both traditional methods such as palette knife oil paintings and sculpture as well as various new media like photography and film. Seremetis got hooked on art and painting when he was living in Boston as a kid using the city's nightclubs as a canvas, and he was just 19 years old when he had his fist exhibition. Since then his work has been exhibited in art centers, galleries and museumsg all over the world successfully establishing a large international following,that led him to gradually start getting involved with other art forms such as abstract short films and band projects. His latest project is a collage of both image and sound of the Star Wars Trilogy, showing at The Cinematheque de Tanger in Morocco.
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