Marcel van Eeden 'Sammlung Boryna'

on the occasion of the Ouborg Award 2013

8 November 2013 - 2 March 2014
Location: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Stadhouderslaan 41, The Hague
www.gemeentemuseum.nl
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 11.00-17.00 hrs

The Ouborg Award, named after the artist Pieter Ouborg (1893-1956) from The Hague, has been awarded to Marcel van Eeden (The Hague, 1965). This municipal prize for visual arts is given every two years to an artist from The Hague. The award consists of a sum of money (€ 10.000), a richly illustrated publication published by Stroom Den Haag and an exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

To mark the occasion, Marcel van Eeden shows his Sammlung Boryna installation (2009) in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, comprising 60 drawings and two sculptures. The piece has already been purchased by the museum. Marcel van Eeden bases his drawings on source material from before the year of his birth, 1965. A few years ago he set out on making various series of narrative drawings, together forming a complex (crime) story. Fact and fiction are continually merged. In these narratives three characters play a recurring role: the botanist Karl McKay Wiegand, the archeologist Oswald Sollmann and the psychiatrist Matheus Boryna. All three of them are lovers and creators of art. In Sammlung Boryna the focus is on Matheus Boryna, a character inspired by the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn, who in the 1920s created a collection of artworks of his patients. Prinzhorn was the first person to show an interest in this kind of ‘outsider art'. The installation Sammlung Boryna refers to his collection, but is based on a variety of image sources.

Publication Marcel van Eeden
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A breath-taking compendium with over 1000 reproductions of the most recent series of drawings by Marcel van Eeden. More on the Ouborg Award 2013 for Marcel van Eeden and the accompanying publication: click here.

PRESS
Kunstbeeld, December 2013-January 2014 (in Dutch)
Den Haag Centraal, 22 November 2013
De Telegraaf, 12 November 2013

08 Nov '13 - 02 Mar '14
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Stadhouderslaan 41, The Hague
Entrance: € 14,50 (full price), Museum Card free and there are various reduced rates