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Kostas Gogas is known as Akney, a graffiti artist from Athens, Greece but he is also interested in various art forms, such as graphic design, lyric writing, screenplay writing, photography, video-clip directing and music composing. He was born in Ioannina on 18 April 1987 and he lives in Athens. His career began in January of 2001 under the K.ent nickname and the R.O.A (Rangers of Art) crew. Soon he established the E.N.A (Efficesious National Artists) team and start takin’ graffiti more serious. Until 2001 been passed he came up with the Akney nickname and with the E.N.A made his first commercial jobs. The E.N.A also stopped their action the same year. September 2001 till August 2003 Akney was painting alone and non-collaborating with anyone. Those years were the basis for the “idea†thing under his art. These years he explored graffiti week by week and more and more. The collaboration he did with Leki in August of 2003 was the start of the big collaboration works and the socializing with graffiti artists in action. He did also more serious commercials then (Mad tv channel, BSB fashion wear were the most famous). This thing kept till February 2006. 2006 was the time for Akney to got a new step and start painting only with brushes and leave the spraycans. He did two commercials {LACE street store, To Vhma Ths Musas (=Step Of The Muse) short-length independed film} and turned down others as a start of an artist who got no need for money from Sold-Out-People and Sold-Out-Companies. 2007 find him home. But still painting. 2008 was the time for him to went out and show the canvases and the sketches he made the previous year. Akney is also a lyricist and a MC member of the Ansia hip hop music group since 2002. In March of 2007 they released “H Krisis†full LP free in the web and hand by hand. Akney had mixed and mastered the sound of the whole CD, designed the layout and the Krisis lyric e-book. A no-budget videoclip was also made for track 4.Tromokratikis Fisis from “H Krisis†and was directed by Akney. On May of 2008 he presented also his new video “BUGS BUNNY†on the web staring Christos Kapenis. “BUGS BUNNY†is experimental and shows the antagonism and the race among the artists. He is now studying graphic arts in Athens. Akney had been infuenced by many artists from different art forms all these years (some artists may not influence him anymore but they did it in past): Toast (graffiti artist), Daim (graffiti artist), Zap (painter, graffiti artist), Impe (graffiti artist), Bizare (painter, graffiti artist), Jamer (graffiti artist), Banksy (street artist), Dave McKean (comic artist, graphic designer, film director), Salvador Dali (painter), Pablo Picasso (painter), K-os (Musician, Lyricist), Terror X Crew (Music Group), The Prodigy (Music Group), Gnarls Barkley (Music Group), Guillermo Arriaga (writer, screenplay writer), Dalton Trumbo (writer, screenplay writer), Charlie Kaufman (screenplay writer), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (film director), Wim Wenders (film director), Stanley Kubrick (film director), Woody Allen (film firector), Jim Jarmusch (film director), Michael Haneke (film director, screenplay writer), Darren Aronofsky (film director), Quentin Tarantino (film director), Sean Penn (actor, film director), Marlon Brando (actor), Benicio Del Toro (actor), Al Pacino (actor), Emmanuel Lubezki (cinematographer).Blanc Coverture - Leuko Proswpeio
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