Picture "Game" (2012)

The Berlin-based artist Martin Eder uses motifs of kitsch and captures them in large-format oil paintings. The depiction of lascivious women's or girls' bodies usually contains a detail that irritates the viewer's gaze.

The work titled "Game" from 2012 was reworked with aluminium glitter pigments so that each of the only three published sheets has a unique look.

Ink-Print, 2012. copy 3/12 - however, never more than 3 copies were edited. Laminated on cardboard, hand-finished with aluminium glitter pigment, numbered and hand-signed. Motif size/sheet size 143 x 95.5 cm. Size in frame 164 x 117.5 cm as shown.

About Martin Eder

Martin Eder (born in 1968) is one of the most successful German painters and belongs to the squad of German artists who caused a sensation and set auction records on the international art market in the noughties.

The Berlin-based artist uses motifs of kitsch and captures them in large-format oil paintings. His naïve-looking depictions of pets and lasciviously draped women's or girls' bodies usually conceal a detail that irritates the viewer's gaze and is intended to make him think. The German magazine Art called him a "master of bad taste". The artist himself says about his painting: "The kitschier my subjects are, the better. I hate them. And yet I can't get away from them."

Martin Eder's controversial works are represented in numerous private collections.

The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.

Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.

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