Tim Eitel

One of the most prominent German painters of his generation, Tim Eitel became known for his brightly coloured paintings of landscapes and museum rooms, populated by the self-obsessed. Eitel documented how a new narcissism had begun to define the 21st Century, resulting in a continuation of the modern tradition of the lonely, ‘rootless’ human. Since 2008, Eitel has intensified this prevailingly pessimistic mood by turning his focus to the issue of homeless people and the dispossessed of contemporary society. Eitel’s move to Paris has seen him continue exploring this subject, his paintings if anything, becoming even darker in mood, his tones and shadows closer to the point of almost crossing from figuration to dark abstraction. Certain figures re-occur, a little girl, the same woman the artist crosses in the street each day en route to his studio. Building a milieu of the “other side” of society, Eitel provides a platform for those usually ignored or neglected in his own meticulously rendered, sensitively observed and uniquely perceptive way.