Martin Eder - New Now London Wednesday, December 5, 2018 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Galerie Eigen & Art, Berlin
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    The Hague, GEM Museum, Dutch and German Paintings, 21 October 2006 - 21 January 2007, n. p. (illustrated)

  • 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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106

Die Stimme aus Metall

oil on canvas
239.5 x 199.5 cm (94 1/4 x 78 1/2 in.)
Painted in 2003.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £35,000

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New Now

London Auction 5 December 2018