ALBERT OEHLEN: Terpentin 2012
Berlin and Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2012. Hardcover. "Albert Oehlen's oeuvre, which covers a period of more than thirty years, is distinguished by its fundamental skepticism about the potential of painting as a medium. Instead of turning his back on painting, however, the artist uses the medium itself to articulate this skepticism. Throughout what he once termed his 'post-non-concrete representation' - from the crude, provocative attacks of the 1980s to the cool, computer-based images of the 1990s and the overpainted advertising and more abstract expressive style of recent years - Oehlen has always striven to blend the passion of the painter with a sense of critical distance. This publication features examples of the artist's work from all these periods of creativity, thus rendering visible the dialectic that pervades the entire body of work and that does away with the differentiation between the figurative and the abstract." Text in German and English. Quarto. Original printed boards, with a color reproduction of an Oehlen painting inset on the front panel. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. Fine. Item #75858
ISBN: 9783775732369
Price: $100.00