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Secession: Albert Oehlen

Name: Secession: Albert Oehlen
Author: Albert Oehlen
ISBN: 9783883759128

by Albert Oehlen

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Overview

Albert Oehlen's continuing restless quest finds its latest manifestation in these Secession paintings of 2003-2004. The paintings can be divided into two groups, which engage in a kind of dialogue: Gray abstract smears with faint figures struggling to find form (or lose it altogether), and more colorful, collage-based works in which photographs glued directly on the canvas are surrounded by the artist's large-scale brushwork.

About the Author, Albert Oehlen

A musician and author as well as a painter, Albert Oehlen, who was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1954, was a seminal figure of the 80s-era European punk and art scenes, along with Martin Kippenberger and others. A major retrospective of his paintings toured European museums in 2004.