Costin Chioreanu, Roadburn’s official visual artist alongside Voivod’s Michel “Away” Langevin and a yet to be named Dutch talent, is currently working on a series of band posters for the 2012 festival. Both Costin and Roadburn are pleased to present his first three posters: Oranssi Pazuzu, Tombs and Virus.
Costin Chioreanu comments: “When I’m working on a band-related project, I listen to the band’s music and get into the atmosphere. In the case of Tombs, I was inspired to illustrate the decline of the American Dream. I named the piece ‘Dying Mother of Exiles.’ The decomposing main character resembles Saint Mary more closely than the Statue of Liberty, but I always like to incorporate more ideas into my art that support a main theme.
“I think the result successfully illustrates the tension, the decadence and the inner despair, without having [an overt political agenda], which I consider the most horrible thing to be included in art of any kind. [The poster art] portrays what I feel about America based on two important things: my personal experience and the signals that several bands there are sending at a spiritual level. I really think there is a frequency where the common consciousness is working…
“I really like the weird feeling that Oranssi Pazuzu’s music gives me. My brain normally measures and expresses things using imagery, so maybe that’s why when I listen to their music it sends me on an interesting trip that lets me explore surreal places and landscapes in the universe. It’s like a good adventure movie with a powerful science fiction touch. When I was a kid I was obsessed with sci-fi (and still am). I decided to use ‘Andromeda’ for the artwork: the name of the song also refers to the stories I devoured when I was younger. To me, the result is like a postcard from where my mind travels listening to this music.
“For Virus, the result might be a jolt to some eyes, but I was just being honest: whenever I listen to Virus I imagine an old Russian movie. I get flashbacks from Tarkovsky movies or Russian sci-fi stuff. This band has a unique approach; their dissonant, surreal riffs convey the kind of anxiety unique to Russian films. ‘Endangered Technology’ is a mixture of ideas: it is both connected to latest Virus album graphic concept and pushes the core further into a new dimension of surrealism and sci-fi. The name of the artwork can also be taken as a reference to Voivod, a fantastic band with whom Virus has something very important in common, namely dissonance-based originality and creativity. The title itself is a metaphor for the extreme state of dehumanization that contemporary consumer society has reached.”
Costin Chioreanu’s poster series will be for sale at Roadburn 2012.
This year’s Roadburn Festival will include the world premiere of Romanian artist Costin Chioreanu’s new exhibition “Too Late for Rainbows.” Following the success of his 2011 exhibition “Where Purgatory Ends,” a combination art show/musical performance/happening staged at various events in Alba Iulia (Transylvania), Helsinki, New York and Bucharest, it is Tilburg’s turn to host the artist.
Unlike “Where Purgatory Ends,” which featured metaphorical reflections on daily life and transcendent childhood memories, “Too Late for Rainbows” deals with spiritual crimes that man has been plotting for thousands of years and is about to commit. While the artist is aware of the imminence of this process and its consequences, he also understands that the unseen world, almost gone from the conscience of man, will swiftly return. The visual discourse is a graphical and metaphorical observation of the final moments of this spiritual apocalypse, for the unseen world and the bond it shares are the most important endangered species in man’s world.
Cause (Riddle)
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“I have been and always am with you, anywhere, even where your shadow
doesn’t follow you, until you find me. I am hidden by you in many, in so
many that you even forgot the way to really look for me.”
Effect
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It the beginning there was the word.
And men described with words what was around them, creating pictures.
Pictures of the definable translated the indefinable.
So words turned empty and the empty end of rainbows filled the sky.
And now… now there is just noise.
In a world of carnal noise
Our time has come again,
Silent.
As many of you can hear our silence,
As many of you will step forward.
“We have invited Romanian visual artist Costin Chioreanu to be the official artist for Roadburn 2012. Chioreanu will set the visual tone for the festival together with Voivod’s Michel Langevin and a new, as of yet unnamed, Dutch artist.” When I saw this statement on Roadburn Festival’s website I was incredible excited!
It’s a huge honor to be included in the next year Roadburn Festival line-up and I am really grateful to Walter for finding my art interesting at this level! I would like to share with you a great interview, made by Stefan Raduta, a very special one, where you’ll be able to see for the first time also 3 artworks from Nattram’s book, G r i s h j ä r t a. Here is the interview….
http://transylvanianhungerrr.blogspot.com/2011/12/art-of-costin-chioreanu.html
Remember, remember…you are still able to dream.
I will like to say a huge thank you for the people that helped us with filming in Portugal! Nuno and & team, you were fantastic.
Support art.
The Living End. Most probably the biggest hit composed to date by this unbelievable musician and mastermind, Rune Eriksen. And remember the musical treasures from his huge background when I’m saying this, to measure properly the weight of my words. I guess are enough reasons already to activate all my highest senses and to build something beyond all I did in the past. So, I think… I did it.
The Ava Inferi video was completely filmed in Portugal and it will be officially released on December 13.
More info – in few days. Until then, you have the poster…of this… movie.
I’m glad that I can finally present the front cover of the new Kandaon album, entitled “Ageless Through Time”. The album release date is delayed so it will be out on Arcana Noctis in January 2012. It was a long run for this album to get into the final stage, but it’s more important that it’s actually done and ready to go to print. From my side, this album is like a tribute for the atmosphere of the ‘90 black metal music, so it was a pleasure to compose and record in this way, my guitar and bass parts. It is anyway a strange release for Romania, a country where just few people are still making more-or-less black metal. I do not know if this album will fill the empty space, and I must confess that wasn’t the reason for doing it, I just wanted to be a part of this kind of record since my childhood, so for me the fact I finally did it with somebody is more than enough.
I hope we will be able to put a song up somewhere on internet soon. Until then, check out the cover.
Here is the design I made for the fourth anniversary tshirts of Heaven And Hell Club in Bucharest – I guess all metalhead around already know this place very well, but in case you don’t, just check it out-
www.heavenandhellclub.ro
Coming January 2012 on Nightfloat Recordings. ‘Transparencies’, the new solo album by Kevin Hufnagel, guitarist for Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Vaura, Byla. “Hufnagel writes with layers and dimensions, and there’s also a rich melodicism that can be appreciated by all. Intoxicating stuff.” – Cerebral Metalhead. Mysterious, deep tapestries of sound, rich with texture, craft strangely beautiful soundworlds. Enter now.
http://kevinhufnagel.bandcamp.com
Video by Costin Chioreanu – www.twilight13media.com
Today Cavalleria Booking announced Ghost Festival, which will take place in Romania, Rasnov (near Rasnov Fortress) during 13 and 14 of July 2012. The logotype and art direction of this unique festival completely related to music (folk, ambient, dark wave) was my part. Of course, more things will be presented until the festival time.
For more info please contact http://cavalleria.ro/category/news/
Until more info will be provided by the promoter, here is the logotype:
