Franz Petto
I just tell what happened in my life and around me, sometimes with the view of a child, sometimes with a little bit of irony, but always with the hope that the world will become better in the future.
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Biography
2024 Apricus Art Collection invited him to their gallery.
2023 Maison Contemporain Paris opened a showroom with him.
2022 Group Show Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK
2021 RISE ART London invited him to there Online Gallery
2021 The Closed Gallery has opened
2018 Resident Magazine US
2017 Exhibition OFFSPACE Club International
2017 Exhibition Art School Vienna
2016 Exhibition Art School Vienna
2016 Exhibition Art School Vienna
2015 Aesthetica Magazine GB
2015 SOLO Exhibition and reading, Tacheles Gallery, Austria
2014 SAATCHI ART admitted him to there Art Advisory program
2013 Released the Site Art Brut&Humor with thousands of visitors
2012 Exhibition AKH Gallery Vienna
2011 INSIDER ART Germany invited him to there Online Gallery
2011 Freelance artist in Vienna
2010-2015 Kathatym-Imaginativ Psychotherapy
2010 Being committed to a Psychiatric Hospital
1988-2010 Works largely in secret as a painter
1988-2000 Readings in Literature-Coffeehouses in Vienna
1988-1994 Artistic training courses in painting, writing and acting
1993 Environment, Polycollege Stöbergasse:"Eating ART with a Spoon"
1988 Class Emilio VEDOVA in Salzburg
1983-1988 Exhibitions in Vienna City Galleries: Blutgasse, Chobot, Gabriel
1983-2011 Worked a day job as an engineer for the Print Finishing Industry
1980 College of Mechanical Engineering
1977 General Qualification for University Entrance
1958 Born in Vienna, as the son of German-Hungarian and German-Yugoslavian refugees
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Nationality:
AUSTRIA
- Date of birth : 1958
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Austrian Artists
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Education
1977 - 1980
Ing.
Vienna,
Austria
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Achievements
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Solo Expositions
2015
Eating Art With A Spoon
Gmunden,
Austria
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Last modification date : Apr 25, 2025
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Added Apr 18, 2023
Maison Contemporain Showroom
Paris, Frankreich
Monday
17
April
2023
Saturday
13
April
2024
Maison Contemporain is an online marketplace and art gallery. The gallery is specialized in the promotion of artists; and advises on the purchase of art. They have a well-sorted offer on established and emerging artists...
Added Jul 7, 2022
Living in the Past - Mixed Group Show
Cupola Gallery, Middlewood Road, Sheffield S6 1TD, Vereinigtes Königreich
Friday
15
July
2022
Wednesday
27
July
2022
Living with the Past
16 July - 27 August
Opening Friday 7:30pm 15 July
We live between tomorrow and yesterday. The past is always with us acting as foundations for our future. Living with the Past is our exploration of these foundations whether they are cultural, personal, physical or even geological. We have gathered together artists that traverse the past.
Added Aug 24, 2021
RISE ART
RISE ART London invited me to join there Gallery, I am now represented by a real gallery.
https://www.riseart.com/artist/119347/franz-petto
Added Feb 14, 2017
The Closed Gallery
https://www.petto.at/
Wednesday
6
January
2021
Saturday
1
January
2022
The Closed Gallery is an art concept I joined. In my case, it's more like an asylum. Well, by closing everything, the asylum is one that extends worldwide. There's not much to see in a closed asylum, so you won't see much in this gallery. I really feel sorry for you as an audience... Of course, you will die soon, if you haven't already, God bless you...
Closed Gallery is a 1969 piece consisting of three invitations to gallery shows in Amsterdam, Turin, and Los Angeles printed on simple white cards. They informed the recipients that during the exhibition, the gallery would be closed. “It’s the purest form of this notion of what the physicality of art is and what art is really all about. One doesn’t need to even have the gallery space", said David Platzker, who sent out numerous announcement cards worldwide, each saying simply “During the exhibition the gallery will be closed”. “I got permission from Robert [Barry] to do the show,” Platzker said. “I asked him if he would lend me copies of the three prior announcement cards and he said, ‘Why would you want them? There is no show. I don’t want people to come to the gallery because the gallery is closed.’
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