Born in 1977 Akut is a known street-artist and photographer. His graffiti career started in the early 1990s, while he was a teenager. Akut was not so interested in common graffiti tagging and letter-painting. Instead he focused on painting photorealistic wall pieces. His unique style led to a collaboration with Hera the painter in a duo called Herakut,. This prolific partnership that started in 2004 brought international recognition, bringing their artworks in London, Berlin, Amsterdam and numerous gallery shows.
Akut more recently fosued on his solo work, and developed numerous works for group exhibitions in London, Paris and Los Angeles. In that time, he started to focus further his exploration of portrait, as one of the most famous and oldest subjects in art.
Akut strive for creating an expressive yet delicate photorealism met subtile graffiti roots, creating today’s individuals dealing with their existence in liminality.
Akut more recently fosued on his solo work, and developed numerous works for group exhibitions in London, Paris and Los Angeles. In the course of this the portrait, as one of the most famous and oldest subjects in art, has also remained as the most interesting one for AKUT. With the solo exhibition “INDIVIDUAL LIMINALITY” he emphasized the portrait as the magnum opus and moves it to the center of his creative work. Expressive yet delicate photorealism met subtile graffiti roots, creating today’s individuals dealing with their existence in liminality.
