Tim Eitel Invisible Forces

NEW YORK, October 26, 2009-PaceWildenstein present a series of new oil on canvas paintings by Tim Eitel in his second solo exhibition at the gallery. This catalogue, with an essay by Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History and director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, accompanies the exhibition. In Tim Eitel's emotionally complex and stirring paintings, the artist conflates fragments of images and memories of everyday life with print and film media, as well as the history of art. The new works are based on pictorial elements isolated from photographs that Eitel takes on city streets as part of an ongoing investigation of the world surrounding him. Eitel uses ambiguous settings and distills out all reference to motion or change, allowing the works to become a lens into the viewer's own contextual references and associations. Eitel first gained recognition as a co-founder of the collective art gallery, Liga, in Berlin. He joined PaceWildenstein in 2006 and his first solo-exhibition at the gallery, Center of Gravity, was mounted the same year.