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Tim Eitel: Hardcover with dust jacket out of print .................. |
The painter Tim Eitel, born in 1971, is one of the leading representatives of the Leipzig school and belongs to a group of young German artists who are currently giving new impetus to the return of painting to contemporary art on an international scale. Following his studies at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, the artist moved to Berlin, where he currently lives and works. At this point of fracture between East and West, Eitel creates sharply observed, nonjudgemental images of his generation and their social and cultural interaction. His painterly oeuvre has the photographic and filmic images of the 1990s stored in its memory, but draws upon these only where necessary in order to create its own, unmistakable pictorial impact. While Eitel continues an artistic preoccupation with figuration, he releases the figurative image from the sociocritical prescriptions under which it appeared in the works of Expressionism or New Objectivity, as Markus Stegmann observes. Eitel tests the conditions under which “credible forms of figuration are currently possible”. His figures “are simply how they are, very normal, very everyday”, shown against a backdrop of flat surfaces “that are allowed to remain as agreeably spacious and empty as they were only able to become in proportion to a human figure set against them”, as Martin Schick writes: “Eitel reduces everything to its essence, yet still achieves the effect of saturation.” In 2003 Tim Eitel was awarded the Marion Ermer Prize for the promotion of art and culture in Saxony and Thuringia, and his work is represented in many important collections. The publication Terrain accompanies the exhibition of the same title
that is being shown in summer 2004 in the Museum zu Allerheiligen /
Kunstverein Schaffhausen and features the majority of Tim Eitel’s
paintings to date. In autumn 2004 the exhibition will be shown in Altkirch
in Alsace, and in spring 2005 it travels to Backnang in Baden-Württemberg. ..................
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