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Summer 2021 Issue. albert oehlen: terrifying sunset. The artist speaks with Mark Godfrey about his new paintings, touching on the works’ relationship to John Graham, the Rothko Chapel, and Leigh Bowery. Albert Oehlen’s studio, Ispaster, Spain, 2019–20. Photo © Esther Freund.
Apr 7, 2021 · Albert Oehlen. April 7–13, 2021. Albert Oehlen ’s oeuvre is a testament to the innate freedom of the creative act. Through expressionist brushwork, surrealist methodology, and self-conscious amateurism he engages with the history of abstract painting, pushing the basic components of abstraction to new extremes.
Albert Oehlen’s oeuvre is a testament to the innate freedom of the creative act. Through expressionist brushwork, surrealist methodology, and self-conscious amateurism he engages with the history of abstract painting, pushing the basic components of abstraction to new extremes.
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'Oehlen’s initial turn to painting in the 1980s was characterized by restrictions and impertinence. He concentrated on certain colours (mostly drab browns), hackneyed symbols (such as the mirror), and themes that were ideologically negative (like the self-portrait). These were tactical steps with which Oehlen […] drew painting into embarrassing sit...
'I posed the self-portrait as a problem for myself in my search for new levels of difficulty, precisely because there’s a huge historical apparatus attached to it, and because it makes you think of art, of seriousness and meaning. Putting myself next to masters.' —Albert Oehlen Brought together in the 2001-2002 exhibition Albert-Oehlen: Self-Portra...
Between 1982 and 1990 Oehlen worked on his Spiegelbilder or Mirror Paintings – a series of works executed in oils with mirrors attached to them. With playful references to Japanese ukiyo-e, Velásquez, and Duchamp’sLarge Glass these works are simultaneously ‘paintings with mirrors’, ‘paintings with things attached to them’, and ‘room paintings.’v Co...
In the late 1980s, Oehlen coined the term “Post-non-representational Painting” as a way of describing the basic conceptual approach that we see him surveying in Retrospektiv where he deftly deconstructs oppositions between figurative and non-figurative, figure and ground, colour and line. Oehlen once quipped: ‘I want an art where you see how it’s m...
• Albert Oehlen came to prominence within the prodigious 1980s art and music scene in Hamburg. Along with his friend, Martin Kippenberger, Oehlen studied under Sigmar Polke at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. • Today, Oehlen’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contempora...
Albert Oehlen is a German artist and former professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2000–2009) now living and working in Switzerland. The artist's contemporary art practice has engaged with a myriad of sources, from the history of Abstract Expressionism to the methodology of Surrealism and the imagery of advertising.
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Albert Oehlen (*1954, Krefeld), lives and works in Switzerland. Since 1981, he has been exhibiting regularly at Galerie Max Hetzler. Oehlen’s work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in international institutions, such as the Serpentine Gallery, London (2019–2020); Palazzo Grassi, Veniceand Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2018–2019 ...
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Renowned for his wild brushwork and idiosyncratic style, Albert Oehlen redefined painting at a critical moment in its history. A contemporary of Martin Kippenberger, he rose to prominence in 1980s Cologne as part the loose avant-garde cohort known as the ‘Junge Wilde’ (‘Young Wild Ones’).
