Albert Oehlen

ed. by Annette Südbeck

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Editor(s)

Annette Südbeck

Uitgever, jaar

Wien : Secession, 2004

Omvang

96 p., geïllustreerd, 29 cm.

ISBN

3883759120

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In a series ranging from the everyday to strange-looking interior depictions, Albert Oehlen develops a new procedure by mixing photography and painting in order to break up the limits of these media and their ethics. He employs an iconoclastic repertoire from very different sources having been assembled by him over the course of many years. These photographs and photographic segments are glued directly on the canvas and are integrated by the artist's large-scale brushwork. Here, the process of gluing refers not only to a basic availability of picture models, but it also represents by its deliberate unprofessionalism and by the cheeky shortage of the painterly translation a criticism of the traditional purity rule within painting. The contrast of the material on the picture surface with the unity of the presented motif endows the pictures with their specific tension. In a different group of paintings, Albert Oehlen continues his series developed in 1997, where he examined the spectrum of the colour grey. By their shadowy emerging and loss, the figures formulate a dualism of the striving towards dissolution and the simultaneous wish for form. In changing test arrangements, Albert Oehlen thus raises the question, what meaning and function the picture object might be able to carry beyond style and mystifying explanations.

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Persoon als onderwerp

Albert Oehlen

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 6 - 3: Kunstenaars