Cenin Von Catlien

Cenin a.k.a. Cenin von Catlien a.k.a. Burcu Corbaci

- Cenin (pronounce as Jeanine) is an autodidactic, self-taught, intuitive, visionary artist since 2005. She lives and creates in mind, womb, tomb and Istanbul. Cenin, her alter ego, means "fetus" in English.

- As of February 2012, Cenin is represented officially by C.A.M. (Contemporary Art Marketing) Gallery which is a leading gallery in İstanbul art scene, hosted over 200 exhibitions, continuing its avant-garde and innovator manner. C.A.M. Gallery was founded in 1992 and has been run in two different places, Akaretler and Nişantaşı, since 2006.

- She studies 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 she reflects in her own image.

- Art for Cenin is a direct method of accessing the collective unconscious. She uses art to bring forward messages from her own personal unconscious using universal archetypes, symbols, subliminal messages, forms, colors, meshed with her personal - complex - iconographic - visual vocabulary. As featured in the book Imagine The Imagination. New Visions of Surrealism, she is also one of the 100 contemporary...