The work of Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden (*1965) seems almost old-fashioned at first glance. Since 1993, van Eeden has created thousands of small-format charcoal and pencil drawings on paper, based on motifs taken from magazines, books, and topographical atlases dating from before the year of his birth. The resulting panorama is a record of the artist’s obsession with reconstructing a history in which he himself did not participate. Van Eeden calls his life’s work the “encyclopedia of my death,” a designation which is only contradictory at first glance, for the time before his birth is just as important to the artist as the time after his death—a state of total absence.
The books airs the mystery surrounding Celia, the protagonist of van Eeden’s latest cycle of works, and also features a representative selection of early drawings.
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Hatje Cantz /// 204 Seiten /// 170 Illustrationen /// 245 mm X 174 mm Hardcover /// deutsch- english ///
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