• Kunstmuseum Basel Catharina van Eetvelde ILK
  • Kunstmuseum Basel Catharina van Eetvelde ILK
  • Kunstmuseum Basel Catharina van Eetvelde ILK
  • Kunstmuseum Basel Catharina van Eetvelde ILK
  • Kunstmuseum Basel Catharina van Eetvelde ILK

Kunstmuseum Basel Catharina van Eetvelde ILK

Since 2004, Catharina van Eetvelde (b. 1967, Ghent) has been developing an exceptional and pathbreaking stance on drawing. For the artist drawing has always constituted the foundation of her work, but she does not understand drawing as an activity bound exclusively by the medium of paper. Rather, drawing is the way in which she relates to the world, and in particular to the natural sciences. Using an approach that is downright anthropological, the artist analyzes and investigates how the natural sciences shape our lives and our conceptions. Against the seemingly unimpeachable authority of science, van Eetvelde sets her art – a chaotic system that cannot be predicted or steered. Catharina van Eetvelde draws in full awareness of the fragility of her works. She does not produce works for eternity, even when she handles the material with extreme care. Rather, her drawings and collages are very delicate works. The data comprising her vector-based drawings and animations are equally limited in lifespan, since their readability depends on computer software. The artist creates lines in all their imaginable forms: as traces that she leaves on the paper; as words embroidered with thread on paper or felt; as linear arrangements of material in space; or as ghostly "digital" lines that briefly appear on a screen as animation and disappear again.

Softcover 21,6 x 27,9 cm 224 pages 144 color ills. English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-758-5 2016

Artist:

Catharina van Eetvelde

Editor:

Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum Folkwang

Texts:

Tobias Burg, Anita Haldemann, Olivier Sécardin

Design:

Istvan Dohar / Nanopublications

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Exhibitions

Kunstmuseum Basel

26.11.2016 – 12.03.2017

 

Museum Folkwang, Essen

29.09.2017 – 14.01.2018

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