PEDRO DE KASTRO
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Far Future Traveller |
| Location | Lisboa, Portugal |
| Introduction | Pedro De Kastro nasceu em Lisboa em 1971. Aos 19 anos, alista-se como voluntário nas Tropas Pára-quedistas portuguesas. Algumas dispersões depois, reinicia os seus estudos autodidactas. Em 2001, PDK vai a Sarajevo, representando Portugal em Desenho na 10ª Bienal de Jovens Criadores da Europa e do Mediterrâneo. No final desse ano, ele deixa o Velho Mundo cruzando o Atlântico e o Equador rumo à América do Sul, mais precisamente o Brasil, onde viveu até 2018 ....................................................... Pedro De Kastro was born in Lisbon in 1971. At 19, he enlists as volunteer into the Portuguese Paratroopers. Some driftings later, he reinitiates his autodidact studies. In 2001, PDK goes to Sarajevo representing Portugal in Drawing at the 10th Biennial of Young Creators of Europe and the Mediterranean. At the end of that year, he leaves the Old World crossing the Atlantic and the Equator towards South America, more precisely Brazil, where he lived until 2018 |
| Interests | From the seventies to nineties, I had continuous and extremely real nightmares where Lisbon was a world of apocalyptic shadows wrecked in a faraway future. These contaminated dreams persist until today, now with dark visions of São Paulo e New York. And I feel a strong and wonderful nostagia. I’ ve been before in that forgotten future. I miss it I MUST transform a current urban scenery into a post–apocalyptic landscape merged in the remote future. Doing that, I travel to that ruined time. My Time. When I see its frightning world, I think in the dangerous path, a very dangerous one, which Humankind is taking. The path of Global Warming and Nuclear Menace It is unavoidable the impact and the consequent sensibilization that the Post-Apocalypse causes us. In post-nuclear holocaust, our stimulated imagination molds the scenario that surrounds us into a much worse fate... and possible |
| Favorite movies | Blade Runner, Planet of The Apes - 1968, |
| Favorite music | Electronik |
| Favorite books | Philip K Dick, Carl Sagan, Kafka, Piranesi, Gustave Doré, Hugh Ferriss |