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KORTEZART

CREATE OR DIE

About Me

27 YEAR OLD ARTIST BORN IN THE CITY OF COMPTON IN 1980 RAISED IN POVERTY IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CURRENTLY RECIDING IN SILVERLAKE AND LIVING A WORKING CLASS LIFE STYLE SERVING THE RATRACE. HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE ARTS SINCE CHILDHOOD AND HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF HAVING THE WORK SHOWN THROUGH OUT LOS ANGELES INCLUDING THE WORLD RENOUNED "CASA DE SAUZA" GALLERY,BLUE CHIPS GALLERY,PART ONE GALLERY IN SANTA MONICA,CANNIBAL FLOWER, HANGAR1018, BLACK MARIA GALLERY AND INFUSION GALLERY IN DOWNTOWN LA. GRADUATED FROM ART SCHOOL BY THE AGE OF 22 (2002) WITH A DEGREE FOR COMPUTER ANIMATION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN. KORTEZART IS LIFE ITSELF CAPTURED AND CRUCIFIED IN PICTURES OF THE MIND THE CREATOR CREATES!!! ([email protected])

My Interests

TO BE AN ARTIST ENTITLES MORE THAN CREATING ART, IT DEMANDS A COMMITMENT TO LIVE AND DIE WITH GREAT STYLE AND EVEN GREATER SADNESS. TO WAKE EACH MOURNING WITH A FEVER RAGING AND KNOW IT WILL NEVER BE EXTINGUISHED EXCEPT BY DEATH. YET TO BE CONVINCED THAT THIS SUFFERING CARRIES A UNIQUE REWARD. THE ARTIST IS THE PRIEST OF THE INVISIBLE. THE ARTIST MAKES HIMSELF A VISIONARY THROUGH A LONG AND BOUNDLESS SYSTEMIZED DISORGANIZATION OF ALL SENSES, ALL FORMS OF LOVE, OF SUFFERING, AND OF MADNESS: HE SEARCHES HIMSELF. HE EXHAUSTS WITHIN HIMSELF ALL POISONS AND PRESERVES THEIR POWERS. WITH UNSPEAKABLE TORMENT, HE BECOMES OF ALL MEN...THE GREAT ACCURSED!!!

I'd like to meet:

OTHER ARTIST'S AND ART GALLERIES!

Heroes:

NICK BLINKO! PICASSO! BASQUIAT!' WARHOL! KEROUAK! VAN GOGH! EDVARD MUNCH! DALI! POE! HP LOVECRAFT! BUKOWSKI!

My Blog

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & EDUCATION

SOLO/ONE MAN SHOWS 2004 "THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH", Part One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2006 "SO-LOW EXHIBIT", The Asylum Gallery, Pomona, CA  GROUP SHOWS 1985 Student mural, Subject: Mexican revolut...
Posted by KORTEZART on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:14:00 PST

SURREALIST MANIFESTO

MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM BY ANDR BRETON (1924) So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life real life, I mean that in the end this belief is lost. Man, that inveterate dreamer, d...
Posted by KORTEZART on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:37:00 PST

DADA MANIFESTO

Dada Manifesto (1916, Hugo Ball) Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about i...
Posted by KORTEZART on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:26:00 PST