Meet the full range of Albert Oehlen’s artistic approaches from his early work to the present day.
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Martin Prinzhorn is a linguist at the University of Vienna and an art critic....
Dempsey Gallery, author of Extended Play (1994), Microgroove: Forays into Other Music (2015), and Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium (2017), and he produces CDs for Corbett vs.
He is the co-owner of Corbett vs.
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John Corbett is a curator and writer based in Chicago.
He has written the books Neue Freiheit: Abstraktion nach 1945 (2010), Rui Inacio: True Images (2010), and Albert Oehlen: Die 5000 Finger von Dr.
He lives in Switzerland.
The authorsAlexander Klar is an art historian and director of the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Wiesbaden.
Influenced by Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, Oehlen\'s work focuses on the process of painting, exposing its structural elements.
After graduating from the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978, he came to prominence in the early 1980s, and has exhibited internationally.
Together with a collection of shorter texts and statements, this brings us close to the ideas of an artist who has been dubbed “the most resourceful abstract painter alive.”The artistAlbert Oehlen was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1954.
Oehlen discusses his computer paintings with John Corbett, and follows up on his more recent work, his thoughts on art, and his day in the studio in a lengthy conversation with Alexander Klar.
Roberto Ohrt’s essay takes us back to the special vibe of the early 1980s where Oehlen worked alongside Kippenberger, Buttner, and others, part of a scene that painted quickly and close to the pulse of time.
It features more than 400 paintings as well as insightful commentaries and interviews, covering Oehlen’s different work stages and approaches.
Throughout, Oehlen transforms the conceptual into the compositional, at once invigorating and challenging the viewer.
Revising and updating TASCHEN’s previous Collector’s Edition, this revelatory survey explores Oehlen’s trajectory from his early days up to the present.
We find collaged fragments of garish poster ads on canvases that transforming screaming slogans into abstract elements, charcoal drawings the size of a wall, finger paintings, and paintings in which black treelike silhouettes contort themselves into a lexicon of abstract forms.
Whether paintings with mirrors, in primary colors or only in gray, heavily pixelated computer paintings or garish poster ads on canvases: more than 400 featured works attest to the audacious and innovative strategies that have secured Oehlen’s place as the “most resourceful abstract painter alive.”A complete survey of Albert Oehlen’s artThe paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and by an openness and beauty often reached through the unlikeliest of means.
In this expansive monograph, we meet the full range of Oehlen’s artistic thoughts and approaches: paintings that integrate mirrors, paintings that are executed strictly in primary colors or only in gray, heavily pixelated paintings produced with the help of one of the first personal computers.
Meet the full range of Albert Oehlen’s artistic approaches from his early work to the present day
