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Costin Chioreanu is a widely acclaimed visual arts icon with a body of work focused on translating music into static or moving images. He also is a multi instrumentalist musician and composer, with large discography, covering all kind of musical genres. As a visual artist, during the last 20 years, this Dutch based artist has developed a unique, yet versatile style mostly focused on visual iconicity. That led him to collaborate with many Extreme Metal leading bands and performers, for whom he has produced stunning graphics and innovative video animations that have become easily recognizable.

Chioreanu specializes in Graphic Design, and earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the National University of Arts, in Bucharest. He started his graphic studio, TWILIGHT 13 MEDIA, in 2003. Since then, this visionary artist has produced all types of visual expressions—from music-inspired illustration to album/book covers, posters, merchandise design and video production, which includes filming live shows, creating concert screenings, directing promotional or animated videos, etc. After two decades of constant collaborations with hundreds of bands (Jethro Tull, Ghost, Soulfly, Emperor, Carcass, Wardruna, Arch Enemy, Hypocrisy, Ulver, Mayhem, Darkthrone, My Dying Bride, Lisa Gerrard, etc), musicians, booking agencies, festivals and labels from all over the world, Costin has created, beyond any doubt, one of heavy music’s most complete and outstanding visual legacies.

Costin Chioreanu also invented his own style of video animation, highly acclaimed and used by many of the headliners of the heavy metal genre. He won 2 International Awards for “The Best Music Video”, first in 2004 by Hummingbird Press (Colombia) for At The Gates – “Heroes And Tombs” and second in 2019 by Prog Magazine (United Kingdom) for Cellar Darling – “Insomnia”. Over the last years he expanded the limits of the worldwide music market with 2 virtual reality experiences, “Midnight Cemetery – released in 2020 and “Twilight13media- the 20 years anniversary virtual reality exhibition”, both developed together with fellow tech genius Adrian Tabacaru.

But there is way more, as the artist dedicate a part of his creative life also to a vast and profound spectrum of personal art & musical projects, with public exhibitions in places as New York, Milano, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Athens, Bucharest, Tilburg, Dortmund, Zaragoza, Brukenthal Palace, Contemporary art museum of Sibiu – Transylvania or even Bran Dracula’s Castle.

He released 2 artbooks: “Magic As A Golden Mean” (Hardcover, 164 pages) produced by Svart Records, Finland in 2015 and “Here To Be” (hardcover, paperback and de luxe edition, 220 pages) produced by Heavy Music Artwork UK in 2023. All editions of both books are sold out.

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