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Albert
Oehlen (born in 1954), who teaches at the Düsseldorf Art Academy,
belongs to the circle of protagonists who constantly question
and redefine the medium of painting.
Together
with Werner Büttner, Georg Herold and Martin Kippenberger,
at the beginning of the 1980s, Albert Oehlen developed a new
attitude to art, which was both antagonistic and (self-)ironic,
critical and emotionally charged. Today, Albert Oehlens 'post-non-representational'
art embraces a continually expanding spectrum of figurative
and abstract painting elements and methods to which he added,
from 1991, computer-generated inkjet prints, which are partially
reworked by repainting or overlaid.
His
large-format paintings are characterised by their vibrant
energy and hybrid form of representation that continuously
re-forms and re-dissolves itself in layers of colours, shapes
and lines.
As
Self-Portrait at 50 Million Times the Speed of Light the retrospective
of Albert Oehlen's paintings may be understood, which is a
collaboration with the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne.
Beside a concentrated selection of paintings since 1980 the
exhibition at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg will also include the
Red Room, which Albert Oehlen conceived together with Heimo
Zobernig in 1994.
A
comprehensive bilingual catalogue
with more than 80 illustrations and texts by Ralf Beil, F.
Javier Panera Cuevas, Thomas Groetz und August Strindberg
has been published by the Zürich publishers JRP Ringier to
accompany the exhibition.
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