Superprijs Celia – Marcel van Eeden

The work by Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden (?1965), most recently acknowledged on an international level thanks to solo shows in The Hague and Santiago de Compostela, seems almost old-fashioned at first glance. Since 1993, van Eeden has created thousands of small-format charcoal and pencil drawings on paper, based on motifs taken from magazines, books, or topographical atlases dated from before the year of his birth. In unfolding a panorama of time between 1920 and 1965, the artist is practically obsessive a…