Egon Zippel
Egon was born 1960 in Rumania. When Ceauşescu came to power in 1965, his parents decided to leave Rumania and move to Heidelberg, Germany.
Egon studied at the University of Mannheim graphic design, received a Fulbright scholarship to Georgetown University, Washington DC, University of Texas, Austin and studied computer graphics at the New York Institute of Technology. He did postgraduate studies at the Institute for New Media in the Staedel Frankfurt Art Academy.
His most recent work involves recycling “communication” from re-appropriated stickers, tags and other fragments of urban signature found on New York streets. These artifacts of urban life re-group on canvas into defined yet chaotic linear, circular and random images emanating modern culture.
Today Egon lives and works in Berlin and Manhattan.
He believes in destiny and works with chance.
CV:
1960 Born in Timisoara, Rumania
1964 Moved to Germany
1981 - 83 University of Mannheim, Germany, communication design and advertising, diploma.
1984 - 85 Fulbright scholarship, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and University of Texas, Austin.
1985 Traveling scholarship to Mexico from the Institute of International Education.
1985 - 86 New York, New York Institute of Technology, computer graphics
1986 - 91 Moves back to Germany, starts to work and show as conceptual artist.
1991 - 93 Moves to Milan, Italy.
1993 - 94 Postgraduate studies at Staedel Frankfurt Art Academy / Institute for New Media with Peter Weibel.
1996 - present Lives and works in New York
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