Marcel van Eeden

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Marcel van Eeden

Marcel van Eeden (born November 22, 1965 , in The Hague , Netherlands ) is a Dutch draftsman and painter . From 1989 to 1993 he studied painting at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague. Van Eeden lives and works in Zurich and The Hague. The impression that is reminiscent of film noir is characteristic of van Eeden's work , which is due to the almost photo-realistic representations and the use of black and white contrasts. He became known to a larger audience through his contribution to the Berlin Biennale 2006.

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Marcel van Eeden is best known for his drawings, in which he mainly works with charcoal pencils. Occasionally he also uses colored pencils or watercolors. Most of the drawings are 19 × 28 cm in size. He creates a drawing every day, which he also published on his blog from 2001 to 2007 . In 2007 he finished his blog and turned to painting for the first time since his studies, at the same time he continues to draw.

Both in his painting and in his drawings, he uses a wide variety of templates, all of which, however, date from the years before his birth, i.e. before 1965. Van Eeden calls this project the “Encyclopedia of My Death”. The templates include photos, exhibition catalogs, clippings from newspapers, magazines and magazines or fabric samples. Many of the works show cityscapes at night, fires, abstract shapes and patterns as well as shorter texts transferred using stencils. By focusing van Eeden on the virtually infinite period of time before his birth, he perceives his own existence as a marginal part of the stream of time and thus underlines the finiteness of his own existence.

Even in the way in which van Eeden builds his pictures, he does not differentiate between painting and drawing, in both techniques he pursues a painterly approach, since he builds the pictures on the gray tones, less on the line. He compares his way of working with that of Edgar Degas ' pastel chalk drawings.

In 2004/2005 van Eeden began to combine drawings into series of different sizes. He realized this through texts from Robert Walser's “Walk”, among others , which extended over several drawings or through recurring figures. The first large block that was created in this way was the 150-part series “KM Wiegand. Life and Work ”, 2006. KM Wiegand is a historically guaranteed botanist whose biography is quoted in short text passages on the drawings. Van Eeden constructed a fictional biography of the botanist by combining it with images that do not necessarily have anything to do with the respective text passage. He also used this method in later series such as “Celia”, 2004–2006 and “Der Archäologe. Die Reisen des Oswald Sollmann ”, 2007 and“ The Death of Matheus Boryna ”, 2007. The protagonists of this series, KM Wiegand, Celia Copplestone, Oswald Sollmann and Matheus Boryna, he brought together in “Witness for the prosecution” (2008).

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Marcel van Eeden (presented) Matthias Grünewald (Edition Ex Libris No. 22), Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-89770-952-2
  • Stephan Berg (Ed.): Marcel van Eeden. Celia (on the occasion of the exhibition Marcel van Eeden. Celia , Kunstverein Hannover, 2006) Ostfildern 2006.
  • Berlin-Berlinale for Contemporary Art / Galerie Michael Zink (Ed.): Marcel van Eeden. KM Wiegand, Life and Work , Ostfildern 2006.
  • Player, Reinhard: Marcel van Eeden. Drawings (on the occasion of the exhibition Marcel van Eeden. Drawings, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, 2004), Burgdorf 2004.
  • Putzke, Markus: Marcel van Eeden: tekeningen, drawings, drawings, dibujos 1993 - 2003 , Nuremberg 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berg, Stephan (ed.): Marcel van Eeden. Celia, Ostfildern 2006, p. 22.
  2. ↑ Galerie Zink (ed.): Sensational. New Way To Paint, Munich / Berlin 2008.
  3. ↑ Interview with Robbert Roos, in: Galerie Zink (Ed.): Sensational. New Way To Paint, Munich / Berlin 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Eeden, Marcel van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague