Otto Zitko

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GKB double-decker coach designed by Otto Zitko as part of Graz 2003 - European Capital of Culture.

Otto Zitko (born February 14, 1959 in Linz ) is an Austrian artist . He lives and works in Vienna .

Life

Otto Zitko attended high school in Wels , studied from 1977 to 1982 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with Herbert Tasquil and Peter Weibel . His first exhibitions took place in 1978 in the Künstlerhaus Vienna and in 1982 in the Peter Pakesch Gallery. Since the 1980s Otto Zitko has been concerned with drawing as a painterly medium, which, coming from oil painting, he does not regard as a preparatory sketch or study for painting, but as “drawing, argued from the point of view of painting”.

Awards

art

As a non- painting painter, Zitko is a “realistic abstract of the aging modern age, an avant-garde artist figure who works in the perfection of the not-yet with the never-reached and the unfinished - in this respect he is also a romantic: the reality of his line is both the dream and to be out in it. "( Herbert Lachmayer )

Otto Zitkos uses the line very consciously. Sometimes he opens up an illusionary space, then again the line networks of his drawings concentrate on the real architectural space of their surroundings. In his allover spatial drawings, for example most recently in Arnolfini, Bristol and in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, the line takes on the function of denoting spatial structure and expansion. In interaction with the architecture, the line becomes an autonomous theme. In his serial works on aluminum and drawings on paper, the line refers to a topic beyond the drawing and triggers an illusionistic projection in perception.

Exhibitions (selection since 2000)

  • 2019, Galerie am Stein, Reichersberg
  • 2010 Me, Myself and I - Otto Zitko and Louise Bourgeois , Arnolfini, Bristol
getting hot , Krobath, Berlin
  • 2009 The art is great! , Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of the Present, Berlin
  • 2008 espacio marte, Mexico City
  • 2007 Gallery Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck
    • Magic Line , MUSEION - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
    • Gallery for contemporary art (GfZK), Leipzig
  • 2006 Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid (with Herbert Brandl)
    • Gallery Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
    • Soleil Noir. Depression and Society , Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
    • Bunkier Sztuki - Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow
  • 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
    • China return , MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
  • 2004 Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague
    • Moravian Gallery Brno (with Josef Dabernig)
  • 2003 Cheim & Read, New York
    • Franz West Vis-à-Vis Otto Zitko , Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (with Franz West)
    • © EUROPE EXISTS , MMCA, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
    • Gallery Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck
  • 2002 Galerie de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Caen
    • Uncommon Denominator , MASS MoCA, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
    • Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid
  • 2001 International Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
  • 2000 Cheim & Read, New York
    • Gallery Krobath Wimmer, Vienna

Permanent installations

  • 2011 Group headquarters Österreichische Volksbanken AG, Vienna
  • 2009 Premium Point, Bucharest
  • 2006 Restaurant Skopik & Lohn, Vienna
  • 2003 MMCA, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
    • Parish Church of St. Andrä, Graz
  • 2001 University Clinic, Innsbruck
    • Grand Hyatt, Berlin
  • 1998 Grand Hyatt, Berlin
  • 1996 SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
  • 1994 Business Park Vienna

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • The construction of the gesture . Ed. Hemma Schmutz , Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg / Barbara Steiner, GfZK Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig / Ingeburg Wurzer, Atelier Otto Zitko, Vienna, Berlin 2008. Text: Jan Avgikos, Hemma Schmutz, Andreas Spiegl, Barbara Steiner ISBN 978-3- 939633-57-0
  • Pythia . Edition Antagon # 2, Salzburg 2008. Text: Hemma Schmutz
  • Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck 1997. Text: Andreas Spiegl
  • Spaces . Kunsthalle Bern, 1996. Text: Ulrich Loock, Christian Kravagna
  • Tom Trevor, Ingeburg Wurzer (ed.): "Otto Zitko - Me, Myself and I", JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86859-132-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austrian news: Josef Bauer awarded the "Alfred Kubin Prize" . Article dated September 11, 2017, accessed September 12, 2017.
  2. Herbert Lachmayer, On the work of the painter Otto Zitko ( Memento from January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on zitko.at, April 5, 2008