Kostar Kastor

1981 - born in Liège, Belgium
2004 - 2007 member of the European Artistic Merit collective
Lives and works in Liège, Belgium

The stencil was his tool of choice from the start but his production is made also today screen printing, ink drawings, collages, sketches, vector illustrations and acrylic painting.


2006

January // "Les artistes comblenois s'exposent" // collective // CaP - Liège - Belgium
April // Enter in MAE (Mérite artistique Européen) collective
June // "I LOVE YOUR CAP" // collective // "Frichez nous la paix" gallery // Paris - France
July // MAE annual exhibition // collective // La Panne - Belgium
Augustus // "C215's Mask Attack show" // Collective // "Frichez nous la paix" gallery // Paris - France
September // "C215's Mask Attack show" // Collective // " LE PASSAGE" gallery // Strasbourg - France
November // "Artistes de chez nous et d'ailleurs" // Collective // Fleron espace sport // Liège - Belgium

2007

June // "C215 DREAD RED SHOW" // Collective // "DADAWAN+MADTURNIP" Art Shop // Paris - France
July // "STENCIL PROJECT 2007" // Art festival // Streets of Barcelona // Barcelona - Spain
Augustus // First solo show // "Hush-Up" concept store // Liège - Belgium
Augustus // "ARTASOU...

It's my training as a graphic designer and my experience in printing who most contributed to my interest in the stencil. An interest that quickly became a passion that only increases over time.
It's in the overlay that I find my pleasure and my feelings.
Sometimes I use more than fifty different stencils on a single painting.
Unlike many other of my colleagues I do not cut pictures but my own drawings which, in my opinion, leaves more place for imagination.
Most of my inspiration comes from pop-art, street art, culture jamming, advertising, film and actuality.