阿尔伯特-奥伦1954年出生于德国克雷菲尔德。1978年从汉堡Hochschule für Bildende Kunst毕业后,他在80年代初崭露头角,并在国际上展出。受Georg Baselitz、Sigmar Polke和Gerhard Richter的影响,Oehlen的作品专注于绘画的过程,揭露其结构性元素。他现居瑞士。
作者
罗伯托-奥尔特,1954年出生于智利圣地亚哥,现居德国汉堡,自1990年以来,他撰写了关于艺术的文章,策划了许多展览,并与他人共同创办了Akademie Isotrop(1996-2001)。自2001年起,他与Juli Susin合作,通过银桥出版社编辑艺术家的书籍。 约翰-科贝特是一位居住在芝加哥的策展人和作家。他是Corbett vs. Dempsey画廊的共同拥有者,《Extended Play》(1994)、《Microgroove: Forays into Other Music (2015), and Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium(2017),他还为Corbett vs. Dempsey的厂牌制作CD。 Martin Prinzhorn是维也纳大学的语言学家,也是一位艺术评论家,经常在艺术书籍和杂志上发表文章。在其他许多人中,他曾写过关于乔治-巴塞利茨、安吉拉-布洛赫、莱西亚-多尔-雷西奥、威尔-福勒、莎拉-卢卡斯和马丁-基彭贝格的文章。 亚历山大-克拉尔(Alexander Klar)是一位艺术史学家,也是威斯巴登Hessisches Landesmuseum的馆长。他曾写过《新自由》(Neue Freiheit: 新自由:1945年以来的抽象主义》(2010年)、《鲁伊-伊纳西奥。真实的影像》(2010年),以及Albert Oehlen: Die 5000 Finger von Dr. Ö (2014),并编辑了许多展览目录。 编辑
The paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and by an openness and beauty often reached through the unlikeliest of means.
In this expansive monograph, we meet the full range of Oehlen’s artistic thoughts and approaches: paintings that integrate mirrors, paintings that are executed strictly in primary colors or only in gray, heavily pixelated paintings produced with the help of one of the first personal computers. We find collaged fragments of garish poster ads on canvases that transforming screaming slogans into abstract elements, charcoal drawings the size of a wall, finger paintings, and paintings in which black treelike silhouettes contort themselves into a lexicon of abstract forms. Throughout, Oehlen transforms the conceptual into the compositional, at once invigorating and challenging the viewer.
Revising and updating TASCHEN’s previous Collector’s Edition, this revelatory survey explores Oehlen’s trajectory from his early days up to the present. It features more than 400 paintings as well as insightful commentaries and interviews, covering Oehlen’s different work stages and approaches. Roberto Ohrt’s essay takes us back to the special vibe of the early 1980s where Oehlen worked alongside Kippenberger, Büttner, and others, part of a scene that painted quickly and close to the pulse of time. Oehlen discusses his computer paintings with John Corbett, and follows up on his more recent work, his thoughts on art, and his day in the studio in a lengthy conversation with Alexander Klar. Together with a collection of shorter texts and statements, this brings us close to the ideas of an artist who has been dubbed “the most resourceful abstract painter alive.”
The artist
Albert Oehlen was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1954. After graduating from the Hochschule 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.
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 is a curator and writer based in Chicago. He is the co-owner of Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, author of Extended Play (1994), Microgroove: Forays into Other Music (2015), and Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium (2017), and he produces CDs for Corbett vs. Dempsey’s label.
Martin Prinzhorn is a linguist at the University of Vienna and an art critic who regularly publishes essays in art books and magazines. Among many others, he has written on Georg Baselitz, Angela Bulloch, Lecia DoleRecio, Will Fowler, Sarah Lucas, and Martin Kippenberger.
Alexander Klar is an art historian and director of the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Wiesbaden. He has written the books Neue Freiheit: Abstraktion nach 1945 (2010), Rui Inácio: True Images (2010), and Albert Oehlen: Die 5000 Finger von Dr. Ö (2014), and has edited numerous exhibition catalogs.
The editor
Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor specializing in contemporary art and photography. His TASCHEN publications include the Collector’s Editions Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Ai Weiwei, and the David Hockney SUMO A Bigger Book, as well as monographs like the XXL-sized Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Albert Oehlen
Albert Oehlen, Roberto Ohrt, John Corbett, Martin Prinzhorn, Alexander Klar, Hans Werner Holzwarth
Hardcover, 25 x 33.4 cm, 3.58 kg, 496 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-0897-1 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
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