Tim Eitel (b. 1971)

‘These early works were really meant to be direct references to Mondrian. At that time I dealt a lot with museum interiors – trying to examine where works of art hang and to analyse the spaces of and for art. In this way I was able to deal and play with problems of space and traces in space, and to define them for myself. On the other hand, Mondrian was a fixed idea of mine. He fascinated me because of the extreme contradictions his work embodies; that one creates this totally rational, almost lifeless structure, behind which you find this utopian theory of salvation. This is a strange idea – that a lattice and some colours can improve mankind.’
T. Eitel, quoted in D. Schoene, ‘Interview with T. Eitel’, in X-Tra, vol. 10, no. 1, Fall 2007
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