Martin Eder - Contemporary Art Evening Sale London Saturday, June 28, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Eigen + Art, Berlin

  • Catalogue Essay

    The German artist Martin Eder makes large, splashy, semi-surrealistic paintings bringing together images of scantily clad women from pornographic magazines and much enlarged kittens; sometimes the women have grotesquely misplaced limbs. Painting in a slick, expressionistic manner that is a kind of stylistic equivalent of his kitschy, creepy imagery, his works are visual explorations His paintings have gained an international reputation for his paintings and watercolors of naked women taken from the pages of soft porn magazines, while concurrently he paints Hallmark card sweet portraits of dogs and cats. There is a clear tendency toward using kitsch as subject matter and yet his painterly proficiency keeps his work in high demand among collectors and curators.

  • Artist Biography

    Martin Eder

    • 1986

    Martin Eder's disturbing oil paintings examine the interaction of beauty and ugliness and are
    shown next to cute kittens and cuddly puppies, candid nudes in eerie, surreal encounters. In
    an almost scientific way, Eder has devoted himself to this since the beginning of his career
    exploring the illusory possibilities of painting and their meaning. Inspired by different streams
    of art history, including baroque and surrealism, represent his paintings the sentimental, the
    filthy, and the sublime side by side, forming the imagery of the classical History painting new.
    Eder breaks the generally accepted notions of what "fine art" should be and undermines
    conventional hierarchies of images and subjects. If you are looking for answers you are out of
    place in Eder's cosmos. But one encounters a silent guest – the uncanny.


    "Bodies are sold, they are abused, they are twisted, they are reinvented, they are drained, they
    are dragged around, thrown into cavities and left alone, locked in wrong perceptions, full of
    attitudes and fears. The spiritual part of it is, that your actions can only be controlled by a very
    strong mind, which is your spirit." Martin Eder


    Martin Eder is based in Berlin and graduated from HfBK Dresden in 2001.
     

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Das Atelier

2006
Oil on canvas.
239.8 x 180cm. (94 3/8 x 70 7/8 in).
Signed and dated ‘Martin Eder 11 06' lower right; signed, titled, and dated ‘Martin Eder 11-2006 Berlin ‘Das Atelier' WV2 805' on the reverse.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 ‡♠

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

29 June 2008, 5pm
London