Kiddy Citny

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Kiddy Citny (* 1957 in Stuttgart ) is a German musician and visual artist .

Life

Wall segment in front of the Märkisches Museum in Berlin-Mitte

Citny grew up in Bremen , moved to West Berlin in 1977 , lived in Amsterdam and London (1979), in Zurich (1980), Bern (1989/90), Los Angeles (1993/94) and until 2000 also had a studio in Munich used.

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Citny gained fame as one of the Berlin "wall painters", together with the French Thierry Noir and others. Citny's 3.6 meter high heads, painted in 1985, found their way off the wall via tourist photos and postcards all over the world. The illegal action was the attempt to " enclose East Berlin with art ". With the fall of the Berlin Wall, his painting, along with the heavy concrete image carriers, found its way into international art collections - including the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Another wall segment stands in front of the Märkisches Museum in Berlin. In 1990, 45 wall segments were organized by the state and auctioned off with the predicate "historically particularly valuable". The Citny faces could be seen on the cover of the auction catalog.

The East Berlin foreign trade company Limex sold parts of the Citny frieze to the MOMA, among others. Citny tried to share in the proceeds from the sale by filing a lawsuit claiming it was an unjust enrichment. Limex accused Citny of “ damaging border facilities” and called the works for which it had received 500,000 D-Marks “graffiti”.

A section of the wall painted by Citny and his friends was used by Wim Wenders as a backdrop in his 1987 film Heaven over Berlin . Citny also recorded the track “Pas Attendre” for the film soundtrack with his band “ Sprung Aus Den Wolken ” (under the label “FAUX PAS”). After the first station called "Out" (a music project with Nina Hagen , 1980) Citny toured with "Sprung aus den Wolken" - initially in the same program with the Einstürzende Neubauten  - until 1989 through Germany and neighboring countries to the west. During this time, the Citny crew also practiced what is now known as the crossover linking music, movement and painting in video-documented performances. Citny is also one of the first artists to generate images on the computer, save their works on PC floppy disks and CD-ROMs and later distribute them via the Internet.

In 2012, fashion created by Julia Starp was shown at Berlin Fashion Week , which was created together with Citny. The collection SHE was haute couture of canvases painted by Citny to see. The works were also guests at the State Textile and Industry Museum in Augsburg's textile district .

Web links

Commons : Kiddy Citny  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Painters restore their wall paintings. Present to Berlin . sueddeutsche.de ; Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ Berlin Wall artist, wants to share in the sales of his graffiti . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1990 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Berlin Fashion Week 2012 with Julia Starp , danyelandre.com. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  4. ↑ Art-Couture - Fashion Show at tim . augsburg.de. Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Citny, Kiddy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and visual artist as well as autodidact
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart