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Kostas Murkudis
Kostas Murkudis
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As a child, Kostas Murkudis emigrated to the German Democratic Republic, where he
grew up at a complete remove from the massive bombardment of Western images. ese
origins, marked by aesthetic sobriety, endowed him with an essentialist, controlled, delicate
sensibility, an austere and elegant spirit. His training as an artist began in the prestigious
Lette-Verein design school in Berlin. It is no accident, then, that the legacy of the Bauhaus
movement can be felt in his work, in the form of a revived functionalism and an objective,
rational design that bear witness to the heat of naked fl esh, producing ...