Albert Oehlen

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ALBERT OEHLEN
Text by Anne Pontégnie.
HOLZWARTH PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9783935567541 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2012
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ALBERT OEHLEN
Text by Stephan Berg, John Corbett, Christoph Schreier.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775732369 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 6/30/2012
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ALBERT OEHLEN: 1991 2008
Interview by Max Dax.
HOLZWARTH PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9783935567480 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2009
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ALBERT OEHLEN: MIRROR PAINTINGS
Edited and with essay by Katja Hesch.
HOLZWARTH PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9783935567312 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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ALBERT OEHLEN: ABSTRACT REALITY
Text by Anne Montfort.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865607270 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2010
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ALBERT OEHLEN: SECESSION
Artwork by Albert Oehlen.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883759128 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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ALBERT OEHLEN: PAINTINGS/PINTURAS 1980-2004
Essays by Ralf Beil, Thomas Groetz and August Strindberg.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9782940271443 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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ALBERT OEHLEN: SELF PORTRAITS
Interview by Rainald Goetz.
SKARSTEDT FINE ART
ISBN: 9780970909015 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2004
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Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen

Text by Anne Pontégnie.
Published by Holzwarth Publications

This volume takes a close look at a recent development in the career of painter Albert Oehlen (born 1954), scrutinizing eleven works from late 2004 to 2005, in which collaged elements first entered the artist’s celebrated abstractions. Oehlen has long maneuvered between figuration and abstraction, and here, amid a muddy palette enlivened by streaks of fresh blues and pinks, collaged fragments of landscapes or human faces peer out, sometimes jarring and sometimes blending with the composition. As Anne Pontégnie points out in her essay, these works “combine experiments of the past with a momentum toward future experiment. Here is an energy in which pleasure, humor and elegance rub shoulders with anger, ugliness and brutality.” These works are given luxury treatment in this volume, which offers nine of the eleven paintings in superbly printed full-color gatefolds.

Albert Oehlen

Text by Stephan Berg, John Corbett, Christoph Schreier.
Published by Hatje Cantz

For over 30 years, German painter Albert Oehlen (born 1954) has been building a body of work distinguished by its skeptical questioning of painting as a medium. Instead of turning his back on painting, though, the artist has chosen to engage with this skepticism within the medium itself. Oehlen followed his rude, provocative Neo-Expressionist attacks of the 1980s with a cooler brand of computer-based images in the 1990s, followed by a subsequent series of painted-over advertising and his more recent, abstract expressionist works, all while striving to maintain a balance of painterly passion and critical distance. This catalogue features exemplary works from the artist’s various creative periods, and emphasizes two unifying themes that run throughout Oehlen’s work: his engagement with abstraction and his notion of “post-non-figurative painting,” and the often underemphasized relation of his line to his plane and his drawing to his painting.

Albert Oehlen: Abstract Reality

Text by Anne Montfort.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Designed by Oehlen himself, Abstract Reality pairs two series: a new sequence of large-format paintings and drawings from 2008/2009, published here for the first time; and an earlier cycle of works from 1990 to 2000. By making this conjunction, Abstract Reality invokes Oehlen's working methods, since he continually references previous works.

Albert Oehlen: 1991 2008

Interview by Max Dax.
Published by Holzwarth Publications

This volume takes up the concept of one of Oehlen's recent installations, in which he juxtaposed paintings from 2008 with his "post-non-figurative" work from 1991. Of his recent paintings, he states, "I wanted emotions! Big colorful things with immediate appeal." The book as a whole proves the range of his artistic curiosity, which challenges itself, the viewer and the medium of painting with its ever-evolving approach.

Albert Oehlen: Mirror Paintings

Edited and with essay by Katja Hesch.
Published by Holzwarth Publications

As Albert Oehlen points out, artists have often depicted mirrors. But in this case he's built real mirrors into each work. With them, he collages the real space in front of the painting with its pictorial space, at once subverting the glass's iconographic significance and inviting the viewer into the picture--only to throw him back out again.

Albert Oehlen: Secession

Artwork by Albert Oehlen.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Albert Oehlen's continuing restless quest finds its latest manifestation in these Secession paintings of 2003-2004. The paintings can be divided into two groups, which engage in a kind of dialogue: Gray abstract smears with faint figures struggling to find form (or lose it altogether), and more colorful, collage-based works in which photographs glued directly on the canvas are surrounded by the artist's large-scale brushwork.

Albert Oehlen: Paintings/Pinturas 1980-2004

Essays by Ralf Beil, Thomas Groetz and August Strindberg.
Published by JRP|Ringier

For the past quarter century, the work of Albert Oehlen, thick with both imagery and paint and awash in deliberate messiness, has constantly questioned the very notion of what painting is. This retrospective catalogue, with some 80 images, reveals the scope of Oehlen's his investigations, as well as a bravura slipperiness.

Albert Oehlen: Self Portraits

Interview by Rainald Goetz.
Published by Skarstedt Fine Art

By stripping the painting down to its basic rules, by using himself as a decisive subject matter, Oehlen created a body of work that diminished the limitations of previous cultural, aesthetic, and artistic obligations made on a painter and painting. This first volume to feature all of Oehlen's early self portraits reveals his balancing of figuration with abstraction, and his simultaneous questioning of the practice and history of art.