Kristian Krokfors (f.1952)
Kristian Krokfors har sin kunstneriske utdannelse fra University of Industrial Arts i Helsinki og fra Leicester Polytechnic i England.
Grafikeren Kristian Krokfors
Som grafiker arbeider Kristian Krokfors med serigrafi. I 1985 ble han kåret til "Finlands Young Artist of the year", et prestisjefylt nasjonal arrangement organisert av Tampere Art Museum. Kristian Krokfors har hatt utstillinger verden rundt, og er representert i en rekke samlinger, deriblant Kiasma, Helsinki Finland, Museum of Modern Art, Chicago Art Institute, USA, Samlung Albertina, Wien, Østerrike og The Art Museum of Cracow, Polen.
Kristian Krokfors is an eminently serious artist. His works are in no sense didactic, but if you were to ask what they are "about", the answer would spring unbidden, without any verbal prompting from him. Yes, they are, they must be, about the environment. They take as their evident, immediate subject the splendours and miseries of town planning and urbanism’s shaky relations with whatever belt of green it chooses to girdle itself with. They look at the dryness of the desert, the acrid smoke that belches from factories, the wind that shakes the barley – or would, if there were any barley left to shake. - John Russell Taylor
