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Art Amsterdam '09 | 13 - 17 May 2009
Marcel van Eeden
wird die moderne kunst »gemanagt«?
paintings and drawings
RAI Amsterdam booth 068
www.artamsterdam.nl
The gallery will present a solo show of both Marcel van Eeden’s new drawings and a group of his new paintings.
Since 1993 Marcel Van Eeden has published a daily drawing in his Weblog, some 5000 in all. In 2007 he started to paint the same subject in all his drawings: the conquest of the past.
Marcel Van Eeden (1965), who works and lives in Zürich (CH) and The Hague sees his life as a tiny particle in the stream of time.
He calls the sum of his work ‘Encyclopedia of my death’, considering not only the time following his death but also the time before his birth as a death-like period of absence.
Therefore, instead of focusing on an unknowable future, he reproduces the past, the decades before 1965, the year of his birth. In his search he is not after well-known or significant images. On the contrary, his interest lies with incidental, minor happenings, or works of art, or people, who together shape the floating existence of a time gone by.
Both his drawings and his paintings are derived from images found in old magazines, books and other publications.
After his participation in the fourth Berlin Biennale in 2006 Marcel Van Eeden’s drawings have been an integral part of international contemporary art.
In Berlin he showed a series of 137 drawings, creating a fictitious biography of the American botanist K.M. Wiegand, who in actual fact lived from 1873-1942.
Whereas previously each of his drawings was an independent work, he now constructs stories into which he fits the images he has found.
In that same year, 2006, followed a series of 160 works for Kunstverein Hannover, named Celia, in which extensive text is taken from the authors Robert Walser, T.S. Eliot and the relatively unknown Dutch author J. Van Oudshoorn, although the writing has no bearing on the images.
His most recent large series is The Archaeologist (The Travels of Oswald Sollmann), shown in 2007 in Kunsthalle Tübingen, Draíocht Dublin and Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos.
In it, Oswald (from Lee Harvey Oswald) Sollmann encounters Wiegand, Celia and other Van Eeden protagonists during his travels.
Some critics see Oswald Sollmann as the alter ego of avid traveller Marcel Van Eeden himself.
The A3 drawings shown at Art Amsterdam are quite a bit larger than the size he originally worked with, which may well be a result of his recent painting period.
The background for a number of the drawings shown will be a monumental drawing on one of the walls of the booth, giving the individual drawings a further enhancement.
And for the first time in The Netherlands a group of his paintings from 2007-2008 will be shown at Art Amsterdam.
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