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24/5/2012

The Tiny Tim

MU, Eindhoven

curated by Angelique Spaninks

How do we hold on to our memories? To what extent do memories make us who we are? But also, in how far do they actually distort what once was true? These are questions that are on everyone’s minds now and then, even though in this era of social media, they have acquired a different dimension. It is scarcely imaginable now that this was totally different some ten to fifteen years ago. A diary, a sketchbook, what is the good of them now that there is Facebook?
Fortunately some people still know how to turn the preservation of ‘what is’ and ‘what was’ into a fine art. Tim Enthoven is one such person.

Tim Enthoven draws. Ever since his earliest childhood he has been drawing. His memories are couched in ink. Since he graduated with honours from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 2009, his draughtsmanship has been conquering the world, simply by registering it. Sometimes his subjects are common-or-garden objects that he commits to paper with acute precision, as in the case of his graduation project

Binnenskamers (Dutch for Indoors), the graphic novel he published last year; as also on the cover of The New York Times Magazine or in one of his many sketchbooks, such as the little one in which he draws a portrait of everyone he talks to for more than fifteen minutes. At other times he draws bizarre metamorphoses with a moustache growing to cover the entire body, or a small wooden robot dancing around. That Tim’s present style fascinates a great many people is beyond dispute. But the piled-up boxes in a corner of his studio, in which he keeps his youth-in-drawings, are if anything even more fascinating. Not only do they tell us something about the development of his draughtsmanship, but also about his coming of age then and thereby also a little bit about now. At MU’s special and insistent request, he has agreed, just this once, to carefully unpack his autobiography: as the curator of his own youth, he arranges the apparently randomly-chosen events from his past into a ready-made story. With The Tiny Tim, he shows us the traumas and talents of a future draughtsman in a cross-border story full of self-help tools, registered in boys’ rooms and sailors’ cabins. With this exhibition a special publication will be issued and will be available at MU and in our online shop.

About the artist
Tim Enthoven (1985, The Netherlands) works on an experimental visual narrative. In his approach he starts with a situation, concept or character, rather than with solely a plot. Design, context, plot and drawings are equally important and all contribute to the story.
He graduated cum laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven and is the 2010 recipient of the Rene Smeets prize, which is awarded for the all-round best graduation project. He was a finalist in the Dutch Design Awards 2010 for Best Illustration. His graphic novel ‘Binnenkamers’ just recently was rewarded with Best Book Design 2012. As an illustrator Tim works for various magazines, newspapers and commercial clients.

Image: Tim Enthoven, Twist-O-Flex

Press material
All press information and image material can be found on www.mu.nl/uk/press
For more information and for appointments for interviews please contact
Angelique Spaninks at press@mu.nl or +31 (0)40 2961 663.

Opening Friday May 25, from 8 pm. This evening the three Tiny Tims will be brought together in a special musical performance

MU
Emmasingel 20 “De Witte Dame” - 5611 AZ Eindhoven
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 10-18 h
Saturday, 11-17 h
Sunday, 13-17 h

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