Artist
Marcel von Eeden *1965

About the work
Marcel van Eeden’s drawings are like graphic novels, artistic comics, orientated around the film noir. This series of 38 drawings seems to follow a storyboard, yet the text does not seem to really fit the images. It would seem to have been taken from books, magazines or newspaper articles. The images too, do not mutually explain one another. The story remains fragmentary: Matheus Boryna is obviously an art-savvy figure who is shot. Yet neither the motive nor the murderer are known. The figure is not completely invented however. It is based on the German psychiatrist and art historian Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933), who compiled a ground-breaking collection of artworks by mentally-ill patients. Van Eeden develops numerous stylistic and graphic techniques in his suggestive picture stories, and in many and varied ways ask when and how visual narrative begins.