About me
Cenin von Catlien a.k.a. Burcu Corbaci
Dream with your eyes open and see with your eyes closed...
- Cenin, my alter ego, means "fetus" in English. I live and work in mind, womb, tomb and Istanbul. I’m an autodidactic, self-taught, intuitive, visionary artist since 2005. M...
Cenin von Catlien a.k.a. Burcu Corbaci
Dream with your eyes open and see with your eyes closed...
- Cenin, my alter ego, means "fetus" in English. I live and work in mind, womb, tomb and Istanbul. I’m an autodidactic, self-taught, intuitive, visionary artist since 2005. My favourite technique is traditional media via colored pencils, crayons, felt-tip pens, markers.
- I study the appearances or phenomena of the psyche - the various appearances and manifestations and forms that the psyche produces - and understood them with a depth of insight, then I reflect in my own image.
- Art for me is a direct method of accessing the collective unconscious. I use art to bring forward messages from my own personal unconscious using universal archetypes, symbols, subliminal messages, forms, colors, meshed with my personal - complex - iconographic - visual vocabulary.
- My symbols do call up unconscious memories and infantile anxieties, but they also disclose a reality that never existed before and a need of self-reparation. So while my symbols do have a psychotic regressive side, they also have a progressive side. It is a progressive revelation of a universal structure that goes beyond the individual personal experience.
- My works concerns self alienation & actualization, the psychic state of infant hero, the after-effects of a child’s separation from the mother through birth, the feelings of death-despair-melancholy, unfulfilled feminine idenitity, inner images of wounded mother & child, being unable to speak, traumatic feelings of being born, life vs. death instinct, alienation, self destruction & reparation, sacrificial infant/fetus gods, divine child, lost & found reality, layers of consciousness, dramatization of simulations, infantile anxiety, Jungian archetypal symbolism, gnosticism, occultism, juxtaposition of depressive and manic, mental interconnectivity...
Zombies, aliens, robots, mutants, androids, creatures, weirdos, freaks, monsters, animals, outsiders, insiders and proletarians of all countries, unite!
Museums and Exhibitions:
2010 – My artwork “Infant Death Funeral Service" were selected for the "I am Abnormal II" group exibition that took place in Abnormals Gallery Berlin, Germany (11.12.2010) and Abnormals Gallery Poznan, Poland (22.01.2011).
2010 - MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Senhor do Bonfim, Bahia, Brazil (Contemporary Art Museum of the city-Senhor do Bonfim) My artwork “Dichotomy Incarnate” has been selected by the museum for their permanent collection of “History of Art of the XX and XXI centuries” project.
2008 - !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival "I dream of the films that haven’t been made yet" group exhibition organised in collaboration with Gallery x-ist in Istanbul, Turkey. My artwork “Fantastic-Atomic Movie Poster” has been chosen by the contest jury.
Interviews, Features, Media:
2011 - İntifada'da Bir Pinokyo poetry book: My artwork "Family From Hell" has been used as cover art for the poetry book written by Erçin D. Coşkun.
2011 - CVLT Nation mag: My works featured on LA based online magazine CVLT Nation.
2011 - Yeni Harman mag: Visually and written interpretation about "voyuerism & culture, capitalism, state, art, etc... relation" for their essay (March- issue 151).
2011 - Maji mag: Turkish-English interview in Turkey's First Online Psy-trance Culture & Psy-art e-magazine issue 18 (page 57-72)
2010 - Imagine The Imagination. New Visions of Surrealism book: My artwork “Iconic Mnemonic” has been selected by Negoist New Art Publishing in Poland for the book. The book aims to show the variety of contemporary surreal art by 100 artists.
2010 - Rashit "Dinozor" EP: A collaboration with Tolga Özbey (founder of Turkish punk rock band Rashit) for their Ep.
2009 - Marie Claire Turkey mag: My artwork “Night Terror Episode” featured in an interview called “Çizgi Hayaller – Dreams of an illustration” in September.
2008 - Illustrations for some underground fanzines.
Cenin Internet Connections:
- Deviant Art: http://selfregion.deviantart.com/
- Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/CENIN/6574067933
- Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/selfregion
- Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/ceninvoncatlien
- Abnormals.org: http://www.abnormals.org/Cenin/
- Saatchi Online: http://www.saatchionline.com/cenin
- Behance: http://www.behance.net/cenin
- Bluecanvas: http://www.bluecanvas.com/selfregion/
- Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cenin/
- Art-Core: http://cenin-von-catlien.art-core.tv/
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I fucking love all of your work..all of it. Awesome style. Inspiration for sure.