The reputation of Marc Mulders (b. Tilburg, 1958) was established on his winning the Prix de Rome in 1985, and since then he is best known - also on the international stage - for his still lifes of flowers and dead game, fish and fowl. Mulders follows the course of the seasons in his canvases. In spring and summer he paints irises, lilies, sunflowers and parrot tulips; in autumn and winter he turns to hares, slaughtered roe deer, butchered cattle and fish. With thick layers of paint he attempts to capture the 'essence' of the flower, the hart or the hare. He wants to show the majestic grandeur of creation, and his rapture about it.
Mulders' oeuvre is dominated by what may well be the great theme in the history of art: the eternal cycle of life and death. Using paint he depicts his vision of suffering, life, death, transience and despair. Yet in contrast to this inescapable mortality, the artist also portrays the beauty and sensuality of life.
Mulders is one of the members of the Tilburg School. He regularly participates in joint projects along with other Tilburg-based artists, namely Paul van Dongen, Guido Geelen, Reinoud van Vught and Ronald Zuurmond.
The work of Mulders is held in high esteem by a large group of art lovers, and a number of leading museums of modern art have acquired his work for their collections, including the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; De Pont, Tilburg; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
This lavishly illustrated publication presents 80 of Mulders' most recent works. Dauw, Dew is being published at a time of renewed interest for works in the painterly tradition, both in various exhibitions and, for example, with the publication Verf ('Paint') by Hans den Hartog Jager.
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