Kostia Botkine
Raised in an stimulating environment culturally open, Kostia is fascinated by circus, theatre and music since his early childhood.
Teenager, he met the musician Antoine Boulangé who initiated him to music and who quickly detected his skills to rap. In 2009, as he were living in the South of France, Kostia Botkine regulary meet Antoine Boulangé at La “S” Grand Atelier where he participates to residencies of music creation with the band “The Choolers”.
In 2015 Kostia Botkine settled down in Vielsam in order to work full time at the workshops of La “S”. Henceforth the Choolers’s project evolved until is tight to Philippe Marien ones. Since the band continues to expand and plays all around France.
In the workshops Kostia has developed a very personal graphical style on the circus tents. His drawings are practically obsessionals, always ruler-drawn with refined shapes as the chromatic palette.
Preface : Raphaël Koenig.
Forewords : Christian Berst.
Catalog published to mark the exhibition In abstracto #2, from March 5th to May 30th, 2020.
