Cindy Leitner
Peripheral ARTeries
Cindy Leitner was born in 1986: she works and lives in Vienna. Education: 2006-2012 Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts, Graphic and printing technics (Otto Zitko, Gunter Damisch), Vienna. 2009-2011 Diploma die Graphische, College for Graphic- and Communication Design, Vienna, AUT prize and scholarships:
2012 First prize competition for drawing „E.O. Plauen verein Plauen-e.V. Vogtland, Plauen, DE 2012 Scholarship Sommerakademie Traunkirchen, graphics, class of Konrad Winter at Papiermuseum Traunkirchen, AUT 2008/09 Scholarship for special achievements, of Fine Arts in the academic year 2008/09 and 2007/08, Bozen, IT Upcoming exhibitions:
May: solo show, Raum 8, Kunstforum Ebendorf, Vienna April Berlin
It is about portraying individuals from my environment, not about representing people in a social situation. The distinguishing characteristics of the depicted people, call it peculiarity or crankiness, are shown in a a cryptical way trough the birds that accompany them. In the portraits from 2011 you can find the birds in cages, but during the years the cages opened up, lost size and vanished. It reflects my way of working on the drawings, which became more relaxed and confident towards my flaws, as well as my opinion about trying to repress ones craziness in everyday-life. One should not hold back ones personality but it should spread its wings.
Contact: Kapaunplatz 4-5/13/5 1200 Vienna leitnercindy@gmail.com
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