Celia - Marcel van Eeden

Celia

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The work by Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden (?1965), most recently acknowledged on an international level thanks to solo shows in The Hague and Santiago de Compostela, 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, or topographical atlases dated from before the year of his birth. In unfolding a panorama of time between 1920 and 1965, the artist is practically obsessive about reconstructing a history in which he himself did not participate. Van Eeden calls his life's work the Encyclopedia of my Death, a title that is only contradictory at first glance: the time before his birth is as important to the artist as the time after his death-a state of total absence.nThe books airs the mystery surrounding the figure of Celia in van Eeden's latest cycle of works, and also features a representative selection of early pieces from his stubborn (in the best sense of the word) oeuvre.nn...
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2006Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag208 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3775718494ISBN-13: 9783775718493

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