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Biography
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Christoph Eberle, hyperrealist painter, born 1969, lives and works in Zurich. He graduated as an architect ETHZ, began painting in his early youth, was a self-employed graphic designer for over 20 years and lives now from painting.
Tradition and the present
Christoph Eberle's hyperrealistic oil paintings are created in the confrontation between tradition and the present. On the one hand, they continue the history of the old and newer masters such as Caravaggio, Jacques-Louis David, Caspar David Friedrich, Giovanni Segantini, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol or Franz Gertsch. These influences and especially Vermeer van Delft's almost photorealistic interpretation of reality meet in Eberle's work a sensitivity that has grown with the digital and high-resolution image reproduction possibilities.
Obsession with Detail
Christoph Eberle's pictures are constructed from photographs. However, they are not slavish copies of the photographic originals, but each represent a strong and independent pictorial idea. The hyperrealistic realisation is achieved with the finest and most precise brushstrokes. Such a meticulous approach limits the production to a few pictures per year.
Composing with light
Light as the medium of visual perception is the main element in Christoph Eberle's work. In his pictures, light pours over the objects, constitutes contours, creates sharpness and blurriness. Light reveals and conceals, directs the viewer's gaze.
Works between still and still life
Christoph Eberle works in series. His works can be roughly divided into two categories: stills and still lifes (objects). In both, moments of everyday life are distilled and recomposed until they coagulate into latently unreal compositions. Their hyperrealistic representation is kept non-judgemental. Interpretation and evaluation take place through observation and remain subjective.
Christoph Eberle regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad. He has a renowned international network of hyperrealist artists at his disposal. Together with Jacques Bodin, one of the main representatives of the European hyperrealism movement, he runs the website hyperrealism.net.
Exhibitions + Events
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2022
Einzelausstellung
Galerie Dutoit, Unterentfelden
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2021
Grosse Regionale
*Alte Fabrik / Kunst(Zeug)Haus
Jurierte Ausstellung regionaler Kunstschaffender
28. Nov. 2021 – 6. Febr. 2022
Galería artelibre
20 años, en 20×20
Galería Arte Roma
Plaza de San Miguel, 13 – 50001 Zaragoza
Group show
de 5 de junio al 15 de julio
Zentrum Karl der Grosse
Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zürich
26. bis 30. Mai 2021
REDis
An online exhibition experience curated by Sergio Gomez exploring "red" as a symbol, emotion, force or attitude in today's culture.
February 14 to March 30, 2021
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2020
Finale 2020
Galerie Dutoit, Unterentfelden
Group Show
Christoph Eberle
Medardus Hagner
Hyperrealismus trifft
Pop-Surrealismus
Galerie Wehrli präsentiert die
Gruppenausstellung zu Gast bei
Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie
Rämistrasse 18
8001 Zürich
Eine besondere Ausstellung
in besonderen Zeiten.
Galerie Dutoit, Unterentfelden
Group Show
Artelibre - 20 years, in 20x20
200 International Masters of Contemporary Realism
Chivasso, Italy
Show cancelled due to the coronavirus
Transperceptions
Group Show
Paris
Octobre
Participation cancelled due to corona restrictions
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2019
Algo más que realismo XIII
Exposición de pintura realista contemporanea
Zaragoza
Hyperrealismus
Das Raffinement der Genauigkeit
Universität Luzern
Referat/Interview
Solo show
Thomas Dutoit Galerie
Unterentfelden
Swiss Art Expo
Zürich
streetart.limited, Ebikon
Pop up in the Mall of Switzerland
Group show
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2018
Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon
Group show
The Abstract Real
The Royal Hall of La Madeleine, Paris
Group show
That One Moment
IG Halle im Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil
Group show
Hyperrealismus – Warum nicht gleich ein Foto schiessen?
Rotary Club Meilen
Presentation/Referat
Realismus – Still alive and kickin'
Galerie Ulrich Gering, Frankfurt/Main
Group show
Realismus
Kommunale Galerie Mörfelden-Walldorf (D)
Group show
art KARLSRUHE 2018
Internationale Messe für Klassische Moderne und Gegenwartskunst
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2017
Hyperrealismus
Galerie Wehrli
Solo show
Scope Basel 2017
International Contemporary Art Show
Basel
Hyperrealism
Solo show
Die Hundertste
Galerie Alex Schlesinger, Zürich
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2016
Galerie Alex Schlesinger
Reality2 – Vom Fantastischen zum Hyperrealismus in der Malerei
Museum Bickel, Walenstadt
Group show (3 artists)
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2015
klein im format – gross in der wirkung
art333, Wädenswil
Group show
Hyperrealism
Galerie Wehrli, Zürich
Solo show
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2013
Still life vs. Landscape
Galerie R57, Zürich
Solo show
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2012
Bildwelten_6
Galerie R57, Zürich
Group show
10 Jahre Haldegalerie
Haldegalerie, Widen
Group show
New Paintings
Galerie Matthys, Wollerau
Solo show
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2011
Kunstszene Zürich
Freilager, Zürich
Group show
Arte piccolo
Galerie Matthys, Wollerau
Group show
Neue Bilder
Galerie 497, Zürich
with Bernard (Sculptures)
Publications + Web
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Artists Directories
hyperrealism.net
Les peintres hyperréalistes de A à Z, leurs nationalités et dates de naissance
Our aim is to encourage and promote the most important Hyperrealist artists from all over the world.
Online-Kunstmuseum
Hyperrealists artists from different parts of the world
hyperréalisme d'hier et aujourd'hui
Blog, that likes to look behind the pictures.
Dedicated to showcasing a range of artists from a variety of practices
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Publications
Anuario editado por artelibre donde participan 111 artistas, 253 pag. más de 600 fotografías de pinturas, en una encuadernación de lujo.
is the first and one magazine (digital & print version) fully dedicated to the Hyperrealism Art.
Artist Portfolio Magazine - Issue 36
Independent specialty art magazine that promotes the portfolios of emerging and established artists from various parts of the world.
An inspirational collection of great artists all over the world and a lot of skulls
L'abstrait réel
Publication accompanying the exhibition in the Royal Hall of La Madeleine, Paris
Post-Modern Times: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art History, Vol.1 No.3
by Stephen Smith
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Presse
Article in the Aargauer Zeitung 14.03.2019
Article in the Tagesschau (SRF) to the exhibition «Schlaf gut», 1.12.2018
Der letzte Moment im Leben als Kunstwerk
by Jérôme Stern/Südostschweiz am Wochenende (pdf)
Über das Leben vor und nach dem Tod
Zürichsee-Zeitung Obersee
(pdf)
Diese Bilder sagen: Sterbe,um zu werden – die Auferstehung der Illusion durch die Fotografie
by Daniele Muscionico/NZZ
by Angela Adank/Sarganserländer
(pdf)
«Reality» – farbenreich, fantasievoll
und faszinierend schön
by Guido Baumgartner and Judith Annaheim/Die Region (pdf)
Überschärft, distanziert,
bisweilen auch verstörend
by Judith Hochstrasser/Sonntag
(pdf)
Christoph Eberle / Hipersuiza
by OPin (Argentinien)
Hyperrealistische Fleischschau
Kulturkritik – Kritische Stimmen zum Kulturgeschehen
by Rafaela Roth
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