Marcel van Eeden "Is Grunewald still modern?"
Mireille Mosler Ltd.
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Born in 1965 in the Netherlands, Marcel van Eeden, explores the world before his own existence by creating predominately black and white drawings after images from magazines and newspapers that predate his birth. Many drawings are also accompanied by texts, which are more or less separate from the images but inform them nevertheless. Van Eeden, as a conceptual draughtsman, often works in large series in which he follows his protagonists, such as K.M. Wiegand, Celia Coplestone and Matheus Boryna. Art itself is often the subject of the drawings.
For Is Grunewald still modern? Van Eeden turns to Modernism, since New York played such an important role in this movement in the 1950s. Fascinated by the seriousness with which terms as ‘free expression’ used to describe Abstract Expressionism at the time, Van Eeden conjures his own pairings. The title of the exhibition comes from a German article, “Ist Grünewald noch modern?” by Adolf Behne, first published in 1930 in Berlin. In this polemic, Behne criticizes the lack of any painting by the fifteenth century painter Matthias Grünewald in Berlin’s public collections and points out why this old master still matters. Van Eeden shows details of what are possibly Grünewald reproductions, combined with texts that are seemingly unrelated as well as simple titles like Modernism and Meaning in Modern Art. Other drawings depict funny illustrations from the 1950s, while maintaining similar subtitles.
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Schedule
from September 17, 2009 to October 10, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-17 from 18:00 to 20:00