Celia - Marcel van Eeden
Celia
KORTE INHOUD
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: 9783775718493Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
