Kwasi Basi- for Ruben Karsters by Dr.Eugene Merkus

Kwasi Basi
In Memoriam Ruben Karsters 22 mei 1941 – 5 maart 2013
We ben kan syi ini yu ay
Dati yu yuru ben kon doro
Yu ben musu fu gowe hesbitem
Go na a wroko presi trasey
Now yu de hey na ini luktu
Na da bigi brinki krin-leti
Verfi wolku en kloru dey
Nafu dati ede
We e skrifi na puwema disi
Spesrutu gi yu ma pikinso gi we tu
Fu memre prakseri
We e wensi yu alla bun
Nanga alla we yeye lobi
Ini bun tem mah
Ooktu ini tranga tem
Tidey nafu yu, a de bika
Wan tradey we e kari tamara
　

Kwasi basi
Man furu nanga yeye faya
So fya komoto na we mindri
A gowe fu tang de tru,
Na trasey wroko presi
Yu ben de dya na grontapu
Mindri we wan tru winiman
Wan krasi anu kwasibasi
Ini a wey fu libi makandra
Yu gi yu srefi abra nanga
Alla kragti ini yu libiskin
Bun tem nanga takru tem
Yu e gowe now wroko-tapu
Yeye de klari fu teki da pasi
Dan yu e opo we fu syi krin
Tyari we go frey te na hey
Abra sabana pasa bigi tiri watra

Sukrem 5 maart 2013 © 2013 All Rights Reserved
　

Ruben Karsters will be cremated Today- Monday 11 March

Ruben Karsters who died last Tuesday will be cremated in Paramaribo on Monday 11 March.

Self Portrait by Ruben Karsters

Services will begin at 3.00pm and the cremation will be at 5pm.at Hennep on Dr.Sophieredmonstraat. Dr. Eugene Merkus will be Master of Ceremonies.

On Sunday the traditional Singing Night was held at no.20 Standvastasastraat. Family and friends  gathered from 8 pm to 11 pm.

We hope to see his friends, colleagues and students. Those who are abroad have been sending their condolences on Social Media.

SURINAME verliest een ware icoon: RUBEN KARSTERS, Remembering the Legend.

ALPHAMAX ACADEMY

Stanvastestraat 18-24

Paramaribo, Suriname

Tel. (597) 400566, 400588, 401356, FAX 401356

Email: info@alphamaxacademy.com

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Motto: “In Diligent Pursuit of Excellence”OFFICIELE PERS BERICHT – 8 maart 2013

Paramaribo, Suriname

SURINAME verliest een ware icoon: RUBEN KARSTERS, Remembering the Legend.

Gisteren verloren de Alphamax Academy en het volk van Suriname één van haar levende artistieke legendes - Professor Ruben Karsters. Geboren op 22 mei 1941, overleed hij in het Academisch Ziekenhuis na een kortstondige ziekte.  Hoewel hij eerder met spoed naar het ziekenhuis werd gebracht is de poging om hem in leven te houden op de intensive care unit zonder resultaat gebleven.

Professor Karsters was hoofd van de Art Department van de Alphamax Academy waar hij in 2003 begon lessen te geven aan jonge talentvolle kunststudenten.  In 2007 werd een van zijn jonge studenten geselecteerd als de Afrika-Caraïben Art Scholar, Deze uitverkiezing bezorgde hem een zomer beurs voor Parson's School of Art en Design in New York.  Zeer recent werd aan een andere student, die de meester-kunstenaar voor vele jaren heeft getraind, een gedeeltelijke beurs aangeboden van een ​​zeer gerenommeerde kunst en design universiteit in Georgia, USA.

Ruben Karsters was een autodidact die ervaren kunstenaars van zijn tijd verbijsterd liet staan met zijn ongeschoolde doch bekwame behandeling van Schone Kuns/Fine Art Skills.  Op de prille leeftijd van zeven jaar was hij al zeer duidelijk de jonge meester zonder papieren of referenties.  Dus, nog voordat hij zijn tienerjaren had bereikt begon hij met het geven van lessen aan studenten die twee keer zo oud waren.  Het was in deze periode dat de jonge Ruben de aandacht trok van de Nederlandse kunstenaar, Nola Hatterman.  Die zag de buitengewone en uitzonderlijke gaven van deze briljante, getalenteerde, rijzende, artistieke genie.

Tot aan zijn overlijden, was het dat als hij betrokken werd in een serieus gesprek over kunst, professor Karsters over Nola Hattermann sprak met een zekere mate van milde “ergernis”.  Tegelijkertijd erkennend de rol die ze op dat moment speelde in het waarnemen van zijn gaven.  Voor Karsters, was ze toch een wat gewiekste persoon die met de eer streek van het werk van andere getalenteerde kunstenaars van die tijd in Suriname.

In 1963 was Karsters een van de eerste Surinamers die naar Nederland ging om Schone Kunsten/"Fine Art." te studeren.Deze kunstkenner maakte een duidelijk onderscheid tussen 'kunst', 'Kunst' en Schone Kunst/'Fine Art”.

Na zes jaar studeren in Nederland keerde hij in 1968 terug naar huis, Swieti Sranan, hoogleraar in de Schone Kunst/Fine Art.  Onlangs, zou de zichtbare ouder wordende meester-kunstenaar vaak zijn naaste leerlingen vertellen dat de uitputtende en zware studie die hij in Europa onderging ook werd gedaan door twee hedendaagse nog levende kunstenaars, Erwin de Vries en Soeki Irodikromo, die hij respecteert.

Ruben Karsters was misschien wel Suriname's meest gevierde en internationaal erkende Schone Kunst artiest/"Fine Artist" in de tweede helft van de 20e eeuw.  Zijn technieken, methodologie, zeer nauwe, scherpe studie van elk onderwerp, in combinatie met - zijn onnavolgbare fantasierijke uitvoering – doet uitermate sterk denken aan de Vlaamse meesters uit de Renaissance.   Als meester-kunstenaar, heeft professor Karsters kunstlessen gegeven aan tal van kunstenaars in Suriname, met inbegrip van Jules Brand-Flu, Cliff San A Jong, en TMC Martin Slagtand - allen van wie hij zich liefdevol herinnerde als zeer begaafde kunstenaars.

Volgens de vice-voorzitter van de Alphamax Raad van Bestuur, dr. Eugene Merkus,

"Als je deze man met zijn opmerkelijke gaven moet beschouwen, is het niet overdreven te stellen dat professor Karsters onvervangbaar is.  Dit geldt niet alleen voor onze eigen in Suriname gewortelde internationale school, de Alphamax Academy, hier in Paramaribo, maar in ons land, Suriname.

Professor Karsters zal sterk worden gemist in kringen tot ver buiten de muren van deze school en dit stukje aarde genaamd Suriname waar hij woonde en werkte. "

Ruben Karsters was de beeldende kunstenaar die in 2007 het ondertussen beroemde "Portret van Hope en Peace: The Four Ms" creëerde.  Het portret kreeg internationale bekendheid toen president Desire Delano Bouterse dit schilderij, het meesterwerk, in november 2010 als nationaal geschenk presenteerde aan de nu overleden president Hugo Chavez van Venezuela.   Dit kunstwerk is in opdracht van de directeuren van de Alphamax uitgevoerd om jonge aspirant-leiders en de komende generatie te inspireren met voorbeelden van persoonlijke zelftransformatie, opoffering en dienstbaarheid.

In een MSNBC opiniepeiling, werd Desi Bouterse's geschenk aan Chavez gerangschikt als één van de top drie 'meest geschikte cadeaus" die in 2010 door een staatshoofd aan de andere werd gegeven.

Het Karsters – Bouterse - Chavez geschenk kreeg de voorkeur boven andere staatsgiften van de leiders uit de eerste wereld, met inbegrip van Poetin en Obama.

Frappant genoeg, professor Karsters overleed op precies dezelfde dag en nagenoeg dezelfde tijd als president Hugo Chavez van de Bolivariaanse Republiek Venezuela.

Na zijn zeer succesvolle Portret van Hoop en Vrede, in 2011 en 2012, heeft Professor Karsters ook kunstwerken uitgevoerd die internationaal werden gepresenteerd.  Een waarnemer heeft verklaard dat misschien wel het jaar voorafgaand aan zijn overlijden zal worden erkend als Karsters’ ''annus mirabilis“.

Ruben Karsters heeft het onderscheid vermogen gehad om misschien als de enige beeldend kunstenaar in Suriname de huidige leider en president van de Republiek, Desire Delano Bouterse, twee keer te mogen portretteren (schilderen).  De eerste maal als de jonge revolutionaire leider in de jaren 1980, en meer recentelijk, in 2012, de volwassen scherpzinnige staatsman die zijn belangrijke plaats inneemt op het internationale politiek wereldtoneel als de Vader van zijn natie.

Ruben Karsters wordt laat achter zijn vrouw, Sabitrie Karsters - Sewpersad, en hun drie kinderen, Cheranie, Vasilie, en Irina.Hij laat ook achter zijn zoon, Anthony, uit een eerder huwelijk.

Volgens een directeur van het Alphamax die de opdracht gaf voor Karsters 'Portret van Hope en Peace,’  "De Rubens van Suriname is weer terug gegaan naar het uitgestrekte hiernamaals!"

Master Artist of Suriname Professor Ruben Karsters passes on

Professor Ruben Karsters, Head of the Art Department at AlphaMax Academy, died earlier today. Karsters was 71 years old. He was teaching his students up to last Thursday. He took a turn for the worse on Monday and was rushed to the Intensive Unit of the Academic Hospital on Tuesday.

Karsters spent nine years teaching the talented students at AlphaMax. Among his many achievements at the school was getting one of his students selected in 2007 as the Africa-Caribbean Art Scholar to Parson’s School of Art & Design in New York. In the last two weeks another of his students was offered a partial scholarship to the internationally-famous Savannah School of Art and Design (SCAD).

Professor Karsters spent six years studying Fine Art in Holland in the 1960s. Art connoisseurs both in Suriname and abroad regard Ruben Karsters as a sublime portraitist at the highest level.

The poet and writer, Ivan A. Khayiat, describes Karsters' approach in this way:

"Karsters has spent the better part of sixty years seeking to perceive objects in ever-deepening clarity – to the point of seeking out ever-deeply every subtle, hidden nuance of tone, colour, shade and shadow – ever-present in the world of objective reality. This is the devout passion of Ruben Karsters’ artistic consciousness."

The President of Suriname honored Karsters in 2010 by selecting the now famous “Portrait of Hope and Peace: The Four Ms” as his official state gift to the late President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, in November 2010. The Directors of the AlphaMax had commissioned this painting in 2007 to inspire young leaders with the outstanding life work of four of the most transformative leaders of the 20th century.

Khayiat describes the Karsters’ masterpiece in his review, Indian Resonances in Suriname, thus:

[The painting is]... a nostalgic reflective study of four masters of politics by the master of art himself. The glowing liberated faces of Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela appear above the contemplative, serious – almost troubled - busts of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X , the American freedom fighters, also men of colour. Indeed, gazing to his left, the beaming, joyous face of the Mahatma, the apostle of peace, clad in white – the son of India and father of the modern independence movement – appears to have inoculated and infected his dancing counterpart, Nelson Mandela: both freedom fighters ironically were dramatically pitted at differing periods against entrenched Dutch supremacy and interests in Southern Africa.

An MSNBC online poll in December 2010 voted Bouterse’s gift to Chavez as one of the top three ‘Most Appropriate Gifts” given by one head of state to another.

Today, as we learned that President Chavez has also passed away, we reflect that perhaps the divine forces want us to cement the link between President Bouterse, President Chavez, Ruben Karsters, and the ideals expressed in “A Portrait of Hope and Peace” which has been the focus of AlphaMax Academy's creative work since 2007.

Professor Karsters was subsequently further honored by the government of Suriname who specially commissioned other paintings presented to heads of state.

Ivan Khayiat , the poet, has been particularly inspired to write poems for each of these works. Non-coincidentally, Khayiat also chose a painting of Karsters' daughter as the cover for his award winning book of poetry “Msiba, My Love".The cover of a collection of AlphaMax Academy student writing, "Surviving the Ordeal” (2007) was also graced with a reproduction of a Karsters painting.

The President of Suriname Desi Bouterse has been an admirer of Karsters' work for several decades. Art connoisseurs know that Karsters executed two portraits of Desi Bouterse: One shows him as the young revolutionary leader of the 1980s, and the second, done in 2012, portrays the reflective, mature elder statesman, and international leader.

Ruben Karsters leaves behind his wife, Sabitrie and their three children, Cheranie, Vasilie, and Irina. He also has a son, Anthony, from a former marriage.

The AlphaMax community expresses its heartfelt thanks and deepest appreciation to Ruben Karsters for a life fully lived and devoted service he rendered in shaping the talents and ideals of youths.

Karsters Art Awards

At the close of the academic year 2004-2005, the very first year after Art Professor Ruben Karsters joined the faculty at the AlphaMax Academy, with the school administration, the school instituted two Art Awards.  Professor Karsters selected with care the recipients of these Academy Art Awards for it was a statement and accolade recognizing the gifts and talents of his students.

Below is a listing of all the students who received the AlphaMax Academy Art Awards:

Most Outstanding and Most Improved, starting from 2004 to 2012.

The Academy’s Art Awards         2004

                Most Outstanding:          Sabrina Lall          Isaiah Wiebers                  Almond Carr

                Most Improved:             Therese Dover      Georgo Boerleider            Vijoya Taylor

The Academy’s Art Awards         2005

                Most Outstanding:          Georgo Boerleider          Almond Carr

                Most Improved:              Shoghi Mantri                 Isaiah Wiebers

The Academy’s Art Awards         2006

                Most Outstanding:          Almond Carr       You Lee Ko

                Most Improved:                               Shoghi Mantri    Vijoya Taylor

The Academy’s Art Awards         2008

                Most Outstanding:          Nicole Tjon-Kie-Sim        Sharen-Vess Schaap

                Most Improved:             Kristina Taylor    Michelle Partoredjo        Shiromani Heilbron

The Academy’s Art Awards         2009

                Most Outstanding:          Vijoya Taylor      Sharen-Vess Schaap       Kristina Taylor

The Academy’s Art Awards         2010

                Most Outstanding:          Emily Jong Tjien Fa          Sharen-Vess Schaap      

                Most Improved:             Marysa Brandflu               Jason Hoppie

The Academy’s Art Awards         2011

                Most Outstanding:          Alvin Beckles

                Most Improved:             Shafeek Nazir

The Academy’s Art Awards         2012

                Most Outstanding:          Ruth Saman        Vinantia Nandlal

                Most Improved:             Alain Soekhlal    Daniel Kolf          Aaqil Wazir

A TRUE ICON OF SURINAME HAS PASSED: Ruben Karsters, Remembering the Legend

Yesterday, the Alphamax Academy and the nation of Suriname lost one of its living artistic Legends – Professor Ruben Karsters. Born on 22nd May, 1941, he passed away at the Academic Hospital following a short illness. Although he was rushed to the hospital earlier, efforts to revive him in the intensive care unit failed.

Professor Karsters was Head of the Art Department at the AlphaMax Academy where be began giving classes to young talented art students in the Academy in 2004. In 2007, one of his young scholars was selected as the Africa-Caribbean Art Scholar, granting him a summer scholarship to Parson’s School of Art & Design in New York. Very recently, another student, whom the art master had trained for many years, was offered a partial scholarship to a highly reputable art and design university in Georgia, U.S.A..

Ruben Karsters was an autodidact who stunned experienced artists of his time with his unschooled yet deft command of Fine Art Skills. At the tender age of seven he was clearly a young master without letters or credentials. Thus, before he entered his teenage years he had began giving lessons to students twice his age. It was in this period that young Ruben caught the attention of the Dutch-born artist, Nola Hatterman, who saw the extraordinary gifts of this brilliant, gifted, rising, artistic genius.

Until his passing, when engaged in serious conversation about art, it was with a degree of mild chagrin that Professor Karsters spoke of Nola Hattermann. While acknowledging the role she played at that time in perceiving his gifts, for Karsters, she was nonetheless a somewhat disparaging figure who took credit from the work of other gifted artists of that time in Suriname.

In 1963 Karsters became one of the first Surinamers who travelled to the Netherlands to study “Fine Art.” This art connoisseur made a clear distinction between ‘art’, “Art”, and “Fine Art”.

After six years of studying in the Netherlands he returned home Professor of Fine Art in 1968. Recently, the visibly aging artist would often tell his close students that the rigorous study he undertook in Europe was also done by two contemporary still living artists, Erwin de Vries and Soeki Irodikromo, whom he respected.

Ruben Karsters was perhaps Suriname’s most celebrated and internationally recognized “Fine Artist” in the latter half of the 20th century. His techniques, methodology, extremely close, incisive study of any subject, combined with – his inimitable imaginative execution – was deeply reminiscent of the Flemish masters from the Renaissance. As art master, Professor Karsters had given art classes to scores of artists in Suriname, including Jules Brand-flu, Cliff San A Jong, and TMC’s Martin Slagtand – all of whom he fondly remembered as very gifted artists.

According to the Vice Chairman of the AlphaMax Board of Directors, Dr Eugene Merkus, “When you consider this man and his remarkable gifts, it is not an overstatement that Professor Karsters is irreplaceable. This holds true not just for our home-grown international school, the AlphaMax Academy, here in Paramaribo, but to our country, Suriname. Professor Karsters will be deeply missed in circles beyond the walls of this school and these shores where he lived.”

Ruben Karsters was the fine artist who executed in 2007 the now famous “Portrait of Hope & Peace: The Four Ms” which was made internationally famous when President Desire Bouterse presented the masterpiece-painting to the now-deceased President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in November 2010. This work of art was commissioned by the Directors of the AlphaMax to inspire aspiring young leaders and the coming generation with exemplars of personal self-transformation, sacrifice, and service.

In an MSNBC public opinion poll, Bouterse’s gift to Chavez was voted as one of the top three ‘Most Appropriate Gifts” given in 2010 by one head of state to another. The Karsters-Bouterse-Chavez gift was preferred above other state gifts from leaders of the first world, including Putin and Obama.

Ironically, Professor Karsters passed away on the self-same day as President Hugo Chavez of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

After his highly successful Portrait of Hope & Peace , in 2011 and 2012, Professor Karsters also executed artworks which were presented internationally.One observer has stated that perhaps the year prior to his demise will be acknowledged as Karsters’ ‘annus mirabilis’.

Ruben Karsters has had the distinction of being perhaps the only fine artist in Suriname to have painted the current leader and President of the Republic, Desire Bouterse, twice: First, as the young revolutionary leader in the 1980s, and more recently, in 2012, the mature astute statesman playing his vital role on the international stage as the Father of his people.

Ruben Karsters is survived by his wife, Sabitrie Karsters-Sewpersad, and their three children, Cheranie, Vasilie, and Irina. He is also survived by his son, Anthony, from a previous marriage.

According to a Director of the AlphaMax which had commissioned the Karsters’Portrait of Hope and Peace , “The Rubens of Suriname is gone to the great beyond again!”

Professsor Ruben Karsters passes.

Karster's Famous Portrait of Hope and Peace 

Professor Ruben Karsters,head of the AlphaMax Academy died earlier today. Karsters was 71 years old . He was teaching his students up to last Thursday. He took a turn for the worse on Monday and was rushed to the Intensive Unit of the Academic Hospital on Tuesday.

Karsters spent nine years teaching the talented students at AlphaMax. Among his many achievements at the school was getting one of his students selected in 2008 as the Africa-Caribbean Art Scholar to Parson’s School of Art & Design in New York. In the last two weeks another of his students was offered a scholarship to the Internationally famous Savanna School of Art and Design (SCAD).

Professor Karsters spent six years studying Fine Art in Holland in the 1960's.Art connoisseurs both in Suriname and abroad regard Ruben Karsters as a sublime portraitist at the highest level. 


The poet and writer, Ivan A. Khayiat, describes Karsters' approach in this way: 

 "Karsters has spent the better part of sixty years seeking to perceive objects in  ever-deepening clarity – to the point of seeking out ever-deeply every subtle,hidden nuance of tone, colour, shade and shadow ever-present in the world of objective reality. This is the devout passion of Ruben Karsters’ artistic consciousness." 

The President of Suriname honored Karsters by selecting  the now famous “Portrait of Hope & Peace:  The Four Ms” as his state gift to the late President  of Venezuela-- Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in November 2010. The Directors of the AlphaMax had commissioned this painting in 2007 to inspire young leaders  with the outstanding life work of four of the most transformative leaders of the 20th century. 

 Khayiat describes the Karsters’ masterpiece in his review, Indian Resonances in Suriname, thus: 
[The painting is]... a nostalgic reflective study of four masters of politics by the master of art himself. The glowing liberated faces of Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela appear above the contemplative, serious – almost troubled - busts of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the American freedom fighters, also men of colour.  Indeed, gazing to his left, the beaming, joyous face of the Mahatma, the apostle of  peace, clad in white – the son of India and father of the modern independence movement – appears to have inoculated and infected his dancing counterpart, Nelson Mandela:  both freedom fighters ironically were dramatically pitted at differing periods against entrenched Dutch supremacy and interests in Southern Africa.

An MSNBC online poll in December 2010 voted Bouterse’s gift to Chavez as one of the top three ‘Most Appropriate Gifts” given by one head of state to another.  

Today as we learnt that President Chavez has also passed away we reflect that perhaps the divine forces want us to cement the link between President Bouterse, President Chavez, Ruben Karsters and the ideals expressed in A Portrait of Hope and Peace which has been the focus of AlphaMax Academy's creative work since 2007.

The Master Fine Artist at work

Professor Karsters was further honored by the government of Suriname by having more speciaaly commissioned work presented to heads of state.

Ivan Khayiat ,the poet, has been particularly inspired to write poems for each of these works.  Non-coincidentally,Khayiat also chose a painting of Karsters' daughter as the cover for his award winning book of poetry ' Msiba, My Love". The cover of a collection of student writing-- " Surviving the Ordeal' was graced with a reproduction of a Karsters painting.

The President of Suriname Desi Bouterse has been an admirer of Karsters' work and he confided that he has two portraits of himself done by Karsters.One shows him as the young revolutionary leader of the 1980s, and the second done  in 2012, as  the reflective,mature elder statesman and international leader.

Ruben Karsters leaves behind his wife, Sabritrie and  three children, Cheranie, Vasilie, and Irina.  He also has a son, Anthony, from a former marriage.

The AlphaMax community expresses its heartfelt thanks and deepest appreciation to Ruben Karsters for a life fully lived and devoted service he rendered in shaping the talents and ideals of youths. 

Venezuela's beloved, transformative dynamic Hugo Chavez dies

President Bouterse, President Chavez and the Iconic KarstersKarsters  " Portrait of Hope and Peace"

After two years of battling cancer, President Hugo Chavez  died today at 4.25 pm.

Vice-president Nicolas Maduro made the announcement on public television.Military and Bolivarian police have been sent out into the street to protect the people and maintain the peace.  

Maduro made the announcement just a few hours after addressing the nation for an hour, accusing the opposition of taking advantage of the current situation to cause destabilisation.

“Those who die for life, can’t be called dead,” Maduro concluded. 

President Chavez in Suriname

In Caracas, thousands of people have gathered in Plaza Bolivar and are said to be heading to the Miraflores Palace. Those gathered are shouting that "Chavez lives, the struggle continues," "the people united will never be defeated," as well as swearing that the Venezuelan bourgeoisie "will never return" to the Miraflores Palace.

Chavez was a close friend of President Bouterse who presented him with Prof. Ruben Karster's Iconic painting - A Portrait of Hope and Peace --the 4 Ms.when he visited Suriname in 2010.

Karster's painting portrays four visionaries of the 20th century who challenged the world to go beyond conventional thinking to shape societies with more potent living values for all mankind.  These men, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X not only successfully transformed their lives though searing experiences, but posed searching questions for all of us, including subsequent generations of leaders.

President Chavez was obviously delighted that the President and people of Suriname saw his political efforts in a similar category to those in the portrait.  At the presentation, he was quick to point to the picture of Malcolm X as he recognised that the artist, Ruben Karsters had boldly moved beyond conventional views; he saw Malcolm as a remarkable person who had transformed himself into a visionary leader who could move many with his witty and eloquent insights.
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Master Artist Prof Ruben Karsters at work on a painting for Fidel Castro

Today Master Artist and modern day Ruben--Prof. Ruben Karsters also passed away in Suriname. AlphaMax Academy and Suriname mourns the loss of a humble genius who quietly reached out across the world to project values of truth and integrity through fine art. He changed the vision of countless young people in Suriname. He inspired AlphaMax's message of Hope and Peace to the world by setting the theme for the creative work of the school. 

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