Kiddy Citny
Kiddy Citny ( * 1957 in Stuttgart) is a musician and visual artist and self-taught.
Life
Citny grew up in Bremen, in 1977 moved to West Berlin, has in Amsterdam and London (1979 ), in Zurich (1980 ), Bern (1989 /90), Los Angeles lived (1993 /94) and until 2000, a studio in Munich used.
Work
Gained fame as one of the Citny Berlin "wall painting ", together with Frenchman Thierry Noir and others. Citnys painted in 1985, 3.6 meter-high heads found their way from the wall about tourist photos and postcards all over the world. The illegal action was an attempt " to include East Berlin with art." With the fall of the wall, his painting came together with the heavy concrete image -makers in international art collections - including the New York Museum of Modern Art ( MOMA). Another wall segment is facing the Mark Brandenburg Museum in Berlin. 45 wall segments were officially organized in 1990 with the title " historically particularly valuable" auctioned. The Citny faces were to be seen on the cover of the auction catalog.
The East Berlin company Limex sold parts of Citny Frieze, among others, the MOMA. Citny tried the proceeds of the sale to participate in an action, whether unjust enrichment. Limex was Citny " property damage of border facilities " before and called the works for which it had received 500,000 D- Mark " graffiti ".
A flight of painted from Citny and his friends wall was Wim Wenders in 1987 as a backdrop in his film " Wings of Desire". For the film soundtrack Citny also took with his band " jump out of the clouds " ( under the label " FAUX PAS ". ) the song " Pas Attendre " on After the first station called "Out" ( a music project with Nina Hagen, 1980) toured Citny with " jump out of the clouds " - initially in the same program with the " Einstürzende Neubauten" - until 1989 by Germany and the western neighboring countries. During this time the Citny crew also practiced today crossover called combination of music, movement and painting in videodokumentierten performances. Moreover Citny one of the first artists generated the images on the computer, their works on PC diskettes and CD- ROMs stored and later distributed via the Internet.
2012 were shown by Julia Starp created fashion at Berlin Fashion Week, which was built along with Citny. In the collection SHE haute couture was made canvases painted by Citny to see. The works were also a guest at the National Textile and Industry Museum in Augsburg's textile district.