Qualities that I want to see brought together: delicacy and coarseness, color and vagueness, and, underlying them all, a base note of hysteria.
—Albert Oehlen

This video shows the exhibition: "Albert Oehlen" of new paintings by artist Albert Oehlen, his first solo show with the gallery in London at Grosvenor Hill. For Oehlen, the practice of painting, with its inherent unpredictability, is a subject in itself. The guiding principles of his method are impulse and eclecticism, while his tools are fingers, brushes, collage, and computer. He often begins by imposing a set of rules or structural limitations—restricting his palette or deliberately working at a slow pace—while challenging himself to approach each painting differently. He treats abstraction as gesture or geometry, superimposed on or conflated with a figurative register, as in readymade posters covered in smudges and stains. Pictorial form is a trigger rather than an end in itself:[ Ссылка ]

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Installation video: "Albert Oehlen", February 5–March 24, 2016, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London
Artworks © Albert Oehlen,Video by PerryDuke.If you would like to use this video, please contact london@gagosian.com

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