An art that, even in a scientific age marked by rampant skepticism and pluralisation, is able to build bridges between the spiritual, materialistic and technological – this is the goal of painter and musician Phago.
Born in Turkey, Phago grew up in the company of the legendary whirling Dervishes. Eastern imagery, music – and in particular the spinning dance through which the Dervishes seek spiritual transcendence – left their mark on the infant artist.
Aged seven, Phago came to live in Germany, and by his high-school years was already seeking, through his art, A Harmony of Opposites. His subsequent medical studies and assimilation of Eastern philosophy and Sufism proved the catalyst in this aesthetic quest. to be continued