Albert Oehlen
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (785 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3836508974 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-15 |
| Language | : | English, French, German |
DESCRIPTION:
New strategies in painting: A personal survey of Albert Oehlen’s art“Freedom for me means playing. In two lengthy conversations with John Corbett and Alexander Klar, Oehlen talks us through his career and ponders the challenge of facing the empty canvas anew each morning. This new, revelatory, and self-curated survey concentrates on Oehlen’s paintings from the past 30 years. It does not mean to be in a void and make crazy moves, it means to play with your own rules.” —Albert OehlenThe paintings of Albert Oehlen (born 1954) live by audacious strategies, the subversion of his own rules, and by the painterly beauty of their abstract, open forms. Throughout, Oehlen transforms the conceptual into the compositional, at once invigorating and challenging the viewer with fresh ways of thinking about painting.Text in English, French, and German. We encounter Oehlen’s series with a restricted palette of gray tonalities; his collaged fragments of garish poster ads on canvases, transforming screaming slogans into abstract elements; his finger paintings; and his recent series of tree paintings in which black, vaguely treelike silhouettes contort themselves into