Albert Oehlen |
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Artist:
| Oehlen, Albert |
Text by:
| Berg, Stephan Corbett, John Schreier, Christoph |
ISBN: | 978-3-7757-3236-9 |
Publication Date: | May 2012 |
Publisher: | Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $73.50 |
Book Description:
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For over 30 years, German painter Albert Oehlen (born 1954) has been building a body of work distinguished by its skeptical questioning of painting as a medium. Instead of turning his back on painting, though, the artist has chosen to engage with this skepticism within the medium itself. Oehlen followed his rude, provocative Neo-Expressionist attacks of the 1980s with a cooler brand of computer-based images in the 1990s, followed by a subsequent series of painted-over advertising and...
More DescriptionFor over 30 years, German painter Albert Oehlen (born 1954) has been building a body of work distinguished by its skeptical questioning of painting as a medium. Instead of turning his back on painting, though, the artist has chosen to engage with this skepticism within the medium itself. Oehlen followed his rude, provocative Neo-Expressionist attacks of the 1980s with a cooler brand of computer-based images in the 1990s, followed by a subsequent series of painted-over advertising and his more recent, abstract expressionist works, all while striving to maintain a balance of painterly passion and critical distance. This catalogue features exemplary works from the artist's various creative periods, and emphasizes two unifying themes that run throughout Oehlen's work: his engagement with abstraction and his notion of "post-non-figurative painting," and the often underemphasized relation of his line to his plane and his drawing to his painting.