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Exhibitions
- Otto Zitko
De corrido
Anyone observing Otto Zitko’s painting is presented with a double dilemma: a variable approach where development and execution are concerned, and an array of ways to observe it. This is the third show at the Heinrich Ehrhardt Gallery for the Austrian painter, following his 2002 solo exhibition where he filled the entire gallery with a wall painting, and his 2006 show where he combined his paintings with fellow Austrian Herbert Brandl, on both occasions showing some of his most notable artistic strategies. For the present exhibition, the artist now proposes a rupture with the continuum of his lines and doodles, using strategically placed sheets of aluminum instead of the walls as the support for his painting, separating each one according to the two sizes utilized. Just like the title of the show, de corrido (Non-stop), Zitko’s lines roam around non-stop on slick and slippery surfaces, fragments of an entire ensemble, where paint is allowed to flow and become entangled in its own intricacies, trying to make sense of itself.