Four decades after he first burst onto the international art scene in the early 1980s, Albert Oehlen (born 1954) remains among the most influential and controversial painters of the present. Operating between figuration and abstraction with vigor and energy, Oehlen relentlessly critiques painting's history, its clich s and its relationship to the imagery of the advertising and pop industries--all within the medium itself (rather than in another art form). Reproducing 110 works, this volume, designed by Heimo Zobernig, takes something of an artist's book approach to Oehlen's oeuvre, emphasizing its methodological complexity, vitality and conflicts. Alongside an interview between Oehlen and fellow painter Daniel Richter, this catalogue contains conversations on the implications of Oehlen's work between Rochelle Feinstein and Kerstin Stakemeier, and between Hal Foster and Achim Hochd rfer.
- ISBN10 3863353935
- ISBN13 9783863353933
- Publish Date 10 July 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 February 2015
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 174
- Language English