Otto Zitko

(Linz 1959)

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Biography

Otto Zitko

Otto Zitko was born in 1959 in Linz. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Herbert Tasquil and Peter Weibel. Originally a representative of the "Neue Wilden" coming from expressive painting, since the 1980s the artist has been primarily concerned with drawing as a means of design, whereby he does not regard it as a preparatory sketch or study of painting, but as an autonomous art form. 1986/1987 marked for him, according to his own statement, the end of his oil painting. In 1992, the painter covered two walls, the Ver Sacrum Room and the Graphic Cabinet in the Vienna Secession, with his characteristic network of lines drawn across edges and corners. This opens up an illusionary space, the viewer is in the middle of the work of art. He subsequently realized these "all over" spatial drawings in other European cities (Berlin, Museum für Gegenwart, 2009; Bucharest, Premium Point, 2009; Bristol, Arnolfini, 2010) as well as permanent installations in the Vienna restaurant Skopik & Lohn, the University of Innsbruck and various private collections. In addition, he worked with oil pencils or acrylic on aluminium or paper, whereby these works also show his unmistakable lineament.

In 1996 Otto Zitko was awarded the Otto-Mauer-Preis and in 2004 the Preis der Stadt Wien für Bildende Kunst. His works can be found in the Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Stift Admont.

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