Martin Eder's Energy in a Painting
‘There is a connection between magic, sorcery and painting. I do not believe in witchcraft and all that, but I think there is something very exclusive and secretive about the fact of painting.’ - Artist Martin Eder. Last few weeks to see #MartinEder before closing on 17 Feb. #free https://bit.ly/2zz63oi
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Martin Eder looking through sketchbook in the studio
Eder notes that sometimes he dreams of having other studios where he discovers pictures he hasn't seen before...‘It makes me feel like probably we are asleep while we are awake and maybe we are alive when we dream.’ Last few weeks to see #MartinEder before closing on 17 Feb. #free
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Martin Eder - Hands on Cat
"I set out to choose the stupidest subjects in order to fulfil platitudes and create images that everyone understands or is familiar with." - Artist Martin Eder.
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Paint Mixing
''Paintings are illusions: a slurry of colours smeared across a scrap of cotton fabric using animal hairs attached to a little piece of wood. A shallow sculpture made from layers of paint. It’s all about the creation of illusions'' - Martin Eder
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Martin Eder - Inspiration
‘I put everything in notebooks in chronological order, and I saw my own biography.' Artist Martin Eder flicks through some of the source materials that have inspired paintings in ‘Parasites’, his largest solo show to date. Visit for #free https://bit.ly/2zz63oi #newportstreetgallery #londonattractions #MartinEderParasites #MartinEder
Martin Eder - Painting
Eder states that the sources for his paintings – smut, cute animal pictures, plastic flowers, pseudo-religious iconography, post-apocalyptic or celestial skies – are selected ‘in order to fulfil platitudes.’ These motifs appeal in part because of their ubiquity and in part because they reveal the arbitrariness of societal standards.
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Martin Eder - Painting Purple
‘I scratch my paintings on purpose.’
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Eder is inspired by other artists such as Edvard Munch, who left his paintings outside in the open for months, so as to connect them to the earth. In his quest to represent this authenticity in his own works, Eder coats his works in heavy varnish, as well as scratching their surfaces in order to allow his works to appear more authentic.
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What is a painting?
“The important thing about painting is, you never stop” – Martin Eder. - Conducting an almost scientific enquiry into his work, Eder has dedicated his career to exploring the illusory possibilities of painting. - Explore his works in ‘Parasites’, on show in the gallery now. #free https://bit.ly/2zz63oi
Varnishing the Cat
"I set out to choose the stupidest subjects in order to fulfil platitudes and create images that everyone understands or is familiar with. When you have the stupidest subjects – whether it’s baby animals, nudity or internet porn – things that everybody knows, you have the characters, but it is only then that you can really get started with the scenery, the dramaturgy." - Artist Martin Eder.
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The Alchemy of Painting
"Many of my works are located in a dream state – otherworldly conditions that produce drama and tension. The protagonists become ghosts, they are just placeholders." - Martin Eder
Discover Eder's work, on view now https://bit.ly/2zz63oi
Paint Mixing
''Paintings are illusions: a slurry of colours smeared across a scrap of cotton fabric using animal hairs attached to a little piece of wood. A shallow sculpture made from layers of paint. It’s all about the creation of illusions'' - Martin Eder
Discover his works in the gallery now #free
Martin Eder Varnishing the Cat
"I set out to choose the stupidest subjects in order to fulfil platitudes and create images that everyone understands or is familiar with." - Artist Martin Eder.
See his subjects in the gallery. #free https://bit.ly/2zz63oi
Martin Eder's 'micro-hells'
Looking for a spook this #Halloween? Artist Martin Eder says drawing from reality is ‘frightening enough’ - so visit the gallery to see his works, which he describes as ‘micro-hells’, conjuring a frightening realm of over-size pets and sinister hybrid creatures. https://bit.ly/2zz63oi
Martin Eder looking through sketchbook in the studio
Artist Martin Eder first emerged in the mid 90s, over a decade after the explosion of expressionistic figurative styles expounded by German artists. Eder, however, looked to traditional painting techniques and historical movements – such as the Baroque and Romanticism – to hone his unique practice, in which extreme realism and off-key set pieces combine with disturbing results.
Explore his works in ‘Parasites’, on show in the gallery now. https://bit.ly/2zz63oi
“The important thing about painting is, you never stop” – Martin Eder on the process of painting.
Explore his works in ‘Parasites’, on show in the gallery now. https://bit.ly/2zz63oi
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