Marcel van Eeden 'N 50 51 40.9 E 3 24 1.3' Ouborg Award 2013

Ouborg Award 2013

Publication on the occasion of the presentation of the Ouborg Award 2013 to Marcel van Eeden.

Winner Swiss Design Awards 2013 (The Most Beautiful Swiss Books): click here

The Ouborg Award, named after the artist Pieter Ouborg (1893-1956) from The Hague is a municipal prize for visual arts given every two years to an artist from The Hague. The award consists of a sum of money (€ 10.000), a richly illustrated publication entitled N 50 51 40.9 E 3 24 1.3 published by Stroom Den Haag and an exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. In the museum Marcel van Eeden will show his installation Sammlung Boryna (2009).

The book N 50 51 40.9 E 3 24 1.3 is a breath-taking compendium with over 1000 reproductions of the most recent series of drawings by Marcel van Eeden. Compelling fiction, based on historical facts and interweaving a number of different timeliness and storylines. Intriguing personages like K.M. Wiegand, Oswald Sollmann and Matheus Boryna live through a series of unforeseen experiences, which at a certain point start to converge. While one of them develops from a bodyguard and reporter into a celebrated scientist and artist, the other is hit by a catastrophe that in turn could have been prevented by the third. Van Eeden ingeniously plaits together his protagonists' biographies, slowly building up an ever more expansive and complete narrative universe. A labyrinth of drawn histories, in which you run the constant risk of losing your way - before chancing upon something familiar again.

More about the Ouborg Award 2013 for Marcel van Eeden and his exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag click here.

Author: Konrad Bitterli, Alexandra Penrhijn Lowe, Arno van Roosmalen, Laura Stamps (Vertaling: Willem Kramer, Yvette Rosenberg, Aoife Rosenmeijer, UvA Talen/Vertalers)
Compiled by: Marcel van Eeden, Jane Huldman (Stroom Den Haag)
Concept: Marcel van Eeden
Photography / Illustration: Marcel van Eeden
Designer: Elektrosmog, Zürich | Printed by: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH, Altenburg
Published: 2013
isbn: 978-90-73799-77-6
Language: Dutch and English
Publisher: Stroom Den Haag
Medium: book
Price: SOLD OUT!