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— a fully equipped modern graphic studio, dedicated to the manufacturing of brightly coloured, yet thematically somewhat eccentric pictures of the floating world, info- and typographics, packaging designs, leaflets, brochures, pamphlets and books; most of our commissioned work is focused on arts, culture, education and other non-profit causes, in harmony with our rather particular lifestyles.
— a warm shelter for wandering monks, martial arts instructors, spare-time pathologists, daisypickers, vegan cooks, flute-playing shepherds, slightly aging anarcho-punks, ascetics and other zealots, off-season theme park enthusiasts and maggot-infested zombies, united by their mutual intrests and passions.
— also known as Kobbyhuan & Kobbytron, KHUAN Cavemen Co., Kwan Tung Lo, The Long Johns Of Yore and/or Yonder, The Abominable Tribe of Long-Haired Goons, The Daruma Crew, and finally, since the advent of Mixail Mitmalka, The Kargasok Clan.
(NTD) Ningtiendo Sehgah (Japan, born 1976) was raised by his aunt in Belgium with all the trades of a modern Japanese upbringing: manga, 16-bit video games, fluorescent sweets and double school hours. At eightteen, he left for Antwerp to study the noble graphic arts. After ten years on the job, he still feels like he's only just starting — so much more to learn and see and do.
(STBZ) Steebz a.k.a. ACPL (Belgium, born 1976) "Don't mind me. I'm somewhere else."
(MXM) Mikail Mitmalka (Russia, born 1972) is newest member of KHUAN brotherhood and likes to speak Western Europeans in gruff monosyllables. Big man and strong man with arms
like trees and small stove for inside. Mikail is great-great-grandson of Wladimir Mitmalka, famous for painting grand icons with golds; Mikail is self-schooled for drawings and paintings with nostalgic feelings. Since some time Mikail lives and works in the KHUAN monastery for his new home; there he may drawing and painting and meditating long time and not worry about talking much, since the older ways talk better than words. Chop woods for the fires. Scare off monastery trespassers and wild boars. Work in the gardens, with the nature under the sun and with the moon. Room and fresh air again.
1997 — Group Show (Riemst, Belgium)
1998 — What’s Your Excuse (Mekanik, Antwerp,Belgium)
2000 — U hoort nog van ons (Z33, Hasselt, Belgium)
2002 — Open Monastery Day — Monks Work (Zhi-Xen Monastery)
2004 — Open Monastery Day — Pictures Of The Floating World (Zhi-Xen Monastery)
2006 — Freaky People (Sint-Petersburg, Russia)
2006 — Wild Vlees (CC, Hasselt, Belgium)
2007 — Open Monastery Day — All Is Emptiness (T’ien Yen Monastery)
2008 — KTRON Solo Show (Lucy, Antwerp, Belgium)
2008 — InkThis 3: Facelift (Leicester+London, UK)
2009 — Portraits & Landscapes (CC Hasselt, Belgium)
2009 — Integrated 2009 (deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium)
Hieronymus Bosch • Chrono Trigger • Li Po • Open source software • Silence • The Book of Changes • Jim Dodge • Hasui • Sadako the witch • Disco Qi Gong • The Zhi-Xen hillsides • Masayuki Takayagi • Boiling water • Fungal tea • Alpiner bonbons • Kougezan Koukiji • Anything with zombies • Waiting for public transportation • The physics of yam & yeung • Shades of black • Smart people saying very stupid things • Thangka painting • Pre-war blues men in their post-war periods • Femur hair ornaments • People who are turned inside out • Hikikomori-style cocooning • Scar tissues (all kinds) • Histories of the Prehistory • Refined primitivism • Medieval torture techniques • Art Brut • People with two different eye colours, not counting David Bowie • Invisible people • Imperial Jade tea • The Conet Project • Tuvan throat singing • Unplanning Scandinavian road trips • Himalayan brownies • Woolen garments • Talking in dialects • Shamanistic shampoo jingles • Forgotten pasts • Halloween movie night specials • The rock eating madman down the block • Hieroglyphics • All things ghastly • Seeing the Middle Path winding, far off in the distance • Made-up religion zealots • Free jazz • Femur guitar slides • Bad English • Black bean sauce • Backwards mathematics • Tamari sauce • Secret of Mana • Oozing tattoo wounds • Freshly plastered walls • Small stringed instruments • Printing methods of yore • Printing methods of the far future • Arvo Pärt • The monastery rooftop cats • Snail mail • Having spare limbs severed and reattached • Keeping stacks of unread philosophy books unread • Puzzling together maps of imaginary places • Exotic afflictions of the skin • Tampopo • Voyages through the insides of the human body • Sabu Orimo • The distant sound of lawn mowers mowing lawns • Vegan Mongolian cuisine • People with huge sideburns, not counting women • The Tzu Brothers • Cherry blossom • Pictures of skulls • Making things work the wrong way • Giles Goatboy • Molten cheese in blasphemous quantities (except gruyère) • Growing hair long • Luciano Cilio • Fei-Yue footwear (the next best thing to walking barefoot) • ZSNES • Faxed Head • Severe chronic sleep deprivation • Playing music backwards • …
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