Art News

Sprüth Magers London Introduces New Series of Works by Dutch Artist Marcel van Eeden

LONDON.- Sprüth Magers London introduces the work of Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden with the exhibition ‘November 22, 1948’. For this latest installment of his work van Eeden has created a new series of drawings that reveal the artist’s ongoing exploration of the concept of narration through the lives of a range of semi-fictional characters and their global exploits. Since 1993, van Eeden, a graduate of The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, has almost exclusively worked in ‘nero’ pencil to articulate a series of events that are part of a continuous yet inherently unstable narrative in constant flux. The resultant predominantly monochromatic images are stylistically reminiscent of ‘film noir’, and the accompanying text within the drawings crosses into the territory of the graphic novel.