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until 24.04. | #4594ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from the 22. February 2025 (Opening: 21.02.) the exhibition So What by the artist Otto Zitko.
The art magazine “Monopol” once described Otto Zitko as the “Lord of the lines”. He himself says: “I started painting a line sometime in the late 1980s and never stopped.” Since then, this line has run through all of his works. He paints it on canvases, aludibond panels, walls and ceilings. He intuitively gives it free rein, depending on how he feels and what he is experiencing at the moment.
Like a seismograph, Zitko uses this never-ending line to record what he absorbs from his surroundings, his environment or global events. In this way, he creates fascinating, shimmering meshes that captivate the viewer and touch them emotionally.
In the exhibition “So What”, Otto Zitko shows particularly remarkable works that he has created over the last 30 years and that mean a lot to him personally – including new, current paintings, in which “his” line seems to seek a way out of the confusion and turmoil of our times.
Otto Zitko, born in Linz in 1959, lives and works in Vienna. Major institutions such as the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, the Secession, Vienna, the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, and the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, have dedicated extensive solo exhibitions to him.
Opening: Friday, 21. February 2025, 7 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 22. February until Monday, 24. April 2025
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Title image caption: Courtesy of Crone Berlin, Otto Zitko, Ohne Titel, 1996, Detail. photo: Markus Wörgötter
Exhibition Otto Zitko – Crone Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
