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Albert Oehlen

May 23–July 26, 2013
Geneva

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view  Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view

Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Annik Wetter

Works Exhibited

Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 2012 Charcoal on paper, 78 ¾ × 78 ¾ inches (200 × 200 cm)© Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 2012

Charcoal on paper, 78 ¾ × 78 ¾ inches (200 × 200 cm)
© Albert Oehlen

About

I have maybe two or three things on my mind, and some might be impossible. Some might be in contradiction to other orders, but I will still try them.
—Albert Oehlen

Gagosian is pleased to present recent work by Albert Oehlen.

I have maybe two or three things on my mind, and some might be impossible. Some might be in contradiction to other orders, but I will still try them.
—Albert Oehlen

Gagosian est heureuse de présenter des œuvres récentes d’Albert Oehlen.

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Artist Spotlight

Albert Oehlen

April 7–13, 2021

Albert Oehlen’s oeuvre is a testament to the innate freedom of the creative act. Through expressionist brushwork, surrealist methodology, and self-conscious amateurism he engages with the history of abstract painting, pushing the basic components of abstraction to new extremes. Oehlen is perhaps best known for his embrace of “bad” painting. Alongside his many rules, he allows a certain awkwardness to enter his work, introducing unsettling gestures, crudely drawn figures, visceral smears of artificial pigments, bold hues, and flesh tones. In this way, he attests to the infinite combinations of form made possible through painting, and shows that these combinations can be manipulated at the artist’s will to produce novel perceptual challenges for the viewer.

Photo: Alejandro Ernesto/EPA/Shutterstock