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ISBN: 9783822849453 Autor: Kertess Klaus, Ohrt Roberto
Rok wydania: 2009-10-25 Ilość stron: 660 Oprawa: twarda w
obwolucie Format: 330 x 440 mm "The most resourceful abstract
painter alive" –...
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ISBN: 9783822849453
Autor: Kertess Klaus, Ohrt Roberto
Rok wydania: 2009-10-25
Ilość stron: 660
Oprawa: twarda w obwolucie
Format: 330 x 440 mm
"The most resourceful abstract painter alive" – The New
YorkerThe definitive monograph of Oehlen's
work to dateLimited to 1,000 numbered copies, each
signed by Albert Oehlen. Also available: an Art Edition limited to
100 copies, each signed by the artist and accompanied
by an original artwork.Often wryly funny and just as
smart, Albert Oehlen’s paintings play the medium
for all it's worth—and then some. After realizing that the
so-called death of painting freed him to explore "the number of
aspects through which one could expand painting," Oehlen started
work on a wide variety of figurative and non-objective offerings,
in what he has called his "post-non-figurative" art. The artist
continuously challenges himself, setting up rules that force him to
overcome convention and his own routine in order to arrive at a
satisfying image. During his career he has chosen to paint in
primary colors only or in gray, to integrate mirrors into his
canvases, or to start on computer paintings when the first PCs
became available. In his most recent work Oehlen expands painting
through the use of advertising posters whose in-your-face
aesthetics he transforms with subtle brushwork. Never without a
touch of tongue-in-cheek humor, his work seems to be winking at us
as it dares us to change the way we perceive an image.
This XL monograph covers the entire scope of Oehlen’s
oeuvre: Roberto Ohrt discusses the early
years, when Oehlen came into his own alongside Kippenberger,
Büttner, and others, part of a scene that broke rules in art and
rock music. Klaus Kertess examines the years from
1988 onwards, when Oehlen saw himself more self-consciously as a
painter and started his first abstract works, then continued to
probe the limits of the medium. Martin Prinzhorn
and John Corbett take a close look at aspects of
Oehlen’s iconography, and Oehlen discusses his computer paintings
in a conversation with Corbett. An exhaustive biography and
bibliography round out this comprehensive study. While Oehlen fans
will rejoice at the publication of this breathtaking book, no one
with an interest in contemporary art should pass up this unique
opportunity to discover Oehlen’s remarkable body of
work.The artist:
Albert Oehlen was born in Krefeld, Germany, in
1954. After graduating from theHochschule für Bildende Kunst,
Hamburg, in 1978, he came to prominence in the early 1980s, and has
exhibited internationally. Influenced by Georg Baselitz, Sigmar
Polke and Gerhard Richter, Oehlen's work focuses on the process of
painting, exposing its structural elements. He lives in Switzerland
and Spain.
The authors:
Roberto Ohrt, born 1954 in Santiago de Chile,
lives in Hamburg in Germany, and since 1990 has written on art,
curated numerous exhibitions, and co-founded the Akademie Isotrop
(1996–2001). Since 2001, he edits artist’s books through the
Silverbridge publishing house in collaboration with Juli Susin.
John Corbett works as a curator and writer from
his home base in Chicago. He is the co-owner of Corbett vs. Dempsey
Gallery, author of Extended Play (Duke University press,
1994), and runs the Unheard Music Series, issuing CDs of historical
jazz and improvised music.
Art writer and curator Klaus Kertess has
previously published monographs on Brice Marden and Joan Mitchell
and recently written catalog essays on Lari Pittman, Chris Ofili,
and Willem de Kooning, as well as contributing essays to books on
John Chamberlain and Matthew Ritchie.
Martin Prinzhorn is a linguist at the University
of Vienna and an art critic who regularly publishes essays in art
books and magazines. Recently he has written on Sarah Lucas, Angela
Bulloch, Lecia Dole-Recio, and Will Fowler.
The editor:
Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and
editor based in Berlin, with numerous publications mainly on
contemporary art and photography. For TASCHEN he has edited, among
other titles, Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen
and Neo Rauch.
