Villa Flora, Tösstalstrasse 44, 8400 Winterthur
CHF 19.00
reduced CHF 16.00
reduced CHF 16.00
Marcel van Eeden takes on the history of the Villa Flora with the famous collector couple Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser and links it to his own artistic universe.
K. M. Wiegand. Life and Work: Marcel van Eeden's monumental graphic work was the discovery of the 4th Berlin Biennale 2006: in 150 works, created in his preferred medium of nero chalk, the artist, born in The Hague in 1965, traces the life of K. M. Wiegand, historically documented as a botanist. In a haunting visual language reminiscent of film noir, a fictional biography emerges from the ordinary life of an average American, meticulously tracing Wiegand's life from bodyguard to war hero and dandy to celebrated scientist and artist. Based on this life story, van Eeden developed a cosmos of fictional biographical connections and private encounters with Oswald Sollmann, Celia Copplestone, Matheus Boryna and Thomas Keller, among others.
In his series and large-format drawings, van Eeden researches historical events dating from before his own birth. Over the years, this has resulted in a large-scale artistic project that links his own existence with the flow of time and, as it were, paints a portrait of the 20th century - in a paradoxical combination of romantic personalization and melancholy distance. The Villa: For the Kunst Museum Winterthur, the artist will devote himself to the history of the Villa Flora in a series of 31 drawings and 15 rubber prints. In a narrative structure characterized by breaks, leaps and omissions, he links the historically documented reading of Rainer Maria Rilke in Winterthur with Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser, while the latter embark on a trip to Egypt and their medical examiner, the Zurich forensic doctor Heinrich Zangger, corresponds with Albert Einstein, who is working on the theory of relativity at the same time.
The work of Marcel van Eeden, who commutes between The Hague, Zurich and Karlsruhe, has been recognized in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad. In the summer of 2023, the state of Baden-Württemberg awarded him the prestigious Hans Thoma Prize, the state prize for fine art. A publication with the complete series of works and texts by Marcel van Eeden and Konrad Bitterli will be published by Salon Verlag to accompany the exhibition.
Curator: Konrad Bitterli
Contributors and additional information:
Marcel van Eeden
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
In his series and large-format drawings, van Eeden researches historical events dating from before his own birth. Over the years, this has resulted in a large-scale artistic project that links his own existence with the flow of time and, as it were, paints a portrait of the 20th century - in a paradoxical combination of romantic personalization and melancholy distance. The Villa: For the Kunst Museum Winterthur, the artist will devote himself to the history of the Villa Flora in a series of 31 drawings and 15 rubber prints. In a narrative structure characterized by breaks, leaps and omissions, he links the historically documented reading of Rainer Maria Rilke in Winterthur with Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser, while the latter embark on a trip to Egypt and their medical examiner, the Zurich forensic doctor Heinrich Zangger, corresponds with Albert Einstein, who is working on the theory of relativity at the same time.
The work of Marcel van Eeden, who commutes between The Hague, Zurich and Karlsruhe, has been recognized in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad. In the summer of 2023, the state of Baden-Württemberg awarded him the prestigious Hans Thoma Prize, the state prize for fine art. A publication with the complete series of works and texts by Marcel van Eeden and Konrad Bitterli will be published by Salon Verlag to accompany the exhibition.
Curator: Konrad Bitterli
Contributors and additional information:
Marcel van Eeden
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.