Tim Eitel: Propositions for Afterimages [German]

By: Bracewell, Michael

Tim Eitel initiates an exchange between recollection and painting. The work on his pictures, he says, is " a conversation about reality and memory" in which he engages the canvas. In the course of this dialogue, Eitel reflects on personal experiences, creating a standalone figural-abstract reality that needs to be internally consistent-- the canvas has a strong will of its own. That makes the scenes depicted in his paintings analogues or afterimages of a situation rather than renditions of it. They are characterized by a certain openness that enables the beholders to inject their own recollections into the pictorial space as well. The dialogue between canvas and artist thus gives way to a colloquy between audience and finished work. Not by coincidence, many of the paintings by Eitel gathered in this catalog show people in museums: these scenes facilitate the leap into the pictorial space. The beholders have experienced a situation like the one shown in the pictures in the past or are experiencing it right now, and so they are already at the heart of the works; they become part of the painting, and the picture becomes a particle of their recollection.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3969122112
• ISBN13: 9783969122112
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: DCV
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.7" x 12.8"