If I Don't Do Art I Die

Growing up in Paris, Adan is currently living and working as a musician in Mexico City. As a child he played with his brother Cristobal in his father’s (Alejandro Jondorowsky) movie 'Santa Sangre', learned dancing from James Brown and playing the guitar from George Harrison. He ended up creating his own way as an actor, tango dancer, poet and devoted musician with a positive outlook on life. He changed his name to Adanowsky after seeing a shaman in Mexico. With every new record his old persona dies and a new one is born. From amador to idol – Adanowsky likes to play and create all that in a folk unique way.

When thinking about avant-garde and a person he truly admires, Adan had just one name in his mind his brother Cristobal. „Not because he is my brother“ – but because his art touches and has a bigger meaning. Besides being an artist Cristobal is also a healer. His colorful symbolic art is inspired by their father’s heritage and love of tarot cards, which Cristobal always carries with him. He also uses symbols and icons he finds in religion, ancient & modern culture and gives them meaning by turning them into something new. There is an element of joy and freedom to his art and the inspiring words he writes on his paintings reveal his life philosophy. Avantgarde is for him something to heal others instead of reproducing from the past what has been already reproduced.

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Production Katharina Kowalewski / Filming, Photos & Editing Alex Kahan / Sound Pablo Acevedo Navarro / Music Adanowsky