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1. www.slam.org › collection › constituentsAlbert Oehlen - Saint Louis Art Museum

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   Geography. Place born (historical): West Germany Place born: Krefeld, Düsseldorf district, Nordrhein-Westfalen state, Germany, Europe

2. soundamerican.org › issues › thirtiethAlbert Oehlen - Sound American

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   Albert Oehlen. At the beginning of the pandemic, mail became an event; it brought a little brightness from the outside world to days of isolation. And so when I received a surprise package from Gagosian gallery, I dropped everything to investigate. Inside, there were four catalogs from different exhibitions of Albert Oehlen’s paintings and a ...

3. hyperallergic.com › 522554 › a-painter-embraces-inA Painter Embraces Inauthenticity - Hyperallergic

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   Oct 19, 2019 · Albert Oehlen was born in Frefeld in 1954, and came to maturity in the 1980s. He too faced similar challenges: what and how to paint. Oehlen has been a wild spirit from first to last. He...

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4. www.artforum.com › columns › albert-oehlen-166168ALBERT OEHLEN - artforum.com

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   ALBERT OEHLEN. ERIC BANKS: One of the things that strikes me about the way you came to artmaking is how incredibly collaborative your work was in the early ’80s. ALBERT OEHLEN: That whole attitude came from feeling very independent, because we were opposed to the image we had of painting at the time.

5. www.moma.org › artists › 4375Albert Oehlen - MoMA

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   Nov 10, 2016 · Albert Oehlen (born 17 September 1954) is a German painter, installation artist and musician. He lives and works in Bühler, Switzerland and Segovia, Spain.

6. gagosian.com › artists › albert-oehlenAlbert Oehlen - Gagosian

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   Learn about the work and career of artist Albert Oehlen. Artworks, biography, exhibitions, news, museum exhibitions, press, and more.

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   Who is Albert Oehlen?

   • Albert Oehlen was born in Frefeld in 1954, and came to maturity in the 1980s. He too faced similar challenges: what and how to paint. Oehlen has been a wild spirit from first to last. He embraces the idea of the inauthenticity of painting. Bad painting appeals to him too – he can learn from it. He also flirts with poor taste, amateurishness.

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   Where does Albert Oehlen live?

   • Albert Oehlen (born 17 September 1954) is a German painter, installation artist and musician. He lives and works in Bühler, Switzerland and Segovia, Spain. Die Güte der Gewohnheit. Fotografie. Zeitschrift für Kultur Jetzt., The Benevolence of Habit. Photography. Magazine for Culture Now.

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   What makes Albert Oehlen a great artist?

   • 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 - Gagosian

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   What is Oehlen best known for?

   • Oehlen is perhaps best known for his embrace of “bad” painting. Alongside his many rules, he allows a certain awkwardness or ugliness to enter his work, introducing unsettling gestures, crudely drawn figures, visceral smears of artificial pigments, bold hues, and flesh tones.

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   What makes Oehlen a surrealism artist?

   • Oehlen admires how Surrealism playfully probes the nature of the real, as the critic Dawn Adès has written. His paintings are often uproarious with color: strokes on the slashing curve, jabs, tricklings, wheelings about, splatterings, splashings. Some are brushed, others sprayed on in a filmy cloud of, say, orange.

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8. gagosian.com › albert-oehlen-artist-spotlightAlbert Oehlen | Online Exclusives | Fairs & Collecting - Gagosian

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   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.