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  • Provenance


    Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin

  • Catalogue Essay


    Artist, musician and photographer Martin Eder is a self-confessed “fundamentalist”. In his works he presents a curio of disturbing and masterful portraits capturing the fragile and violent beauty of disabled beauties, tormented figures, and lush imagery. The present lot juxtaposes disarming appeal with lust in a fantasy world only Eder can capture.

  • 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.

94 3/8 x 70 7/8 in. (239.7 x 180 cm).

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
$70,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $74,500

Contemporary Art Part II

14 May 2010
New York