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Albert Oehlen

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400.000 £ - 600.000 £
ca. 522.609 $ - 783.914 $
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729.000 £
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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 5

Albert Oehlen

Schätzpreis
400.000 £ - 600.000 £
ca. 522.609 $ - 783.914 $
Zuschlagspreis:
729.000 £
ca. 952.455 $
Beschreibung:

5 Albert Oehlen Follow Untitled signed and dated 'A. Oehlen '08' on the reverse spray paint, inkjet, oil and paper on canvas 240 x 200.7 cm (94 1/2 x 79 in.) Executed in 2008.
Provenance Gagosian Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Catalogue Essay Central to the rehabilitation of painting in the 1980s and challenging the preconceived artistic canon, Albert Oehlen positioned himself as the enfant terrible of the 1980s German art scene. The present work, Untitled , is an outstanding example from Oehlen’s Computer Painting series, in which the artist first introduced digital technology into his disruptive painterly practice. As one of the first painters to unmistakably incorporate computer imagery in his works, the artist liberated the formal boundaries of painting through the pixelated nature of his compositions. Presenting the viewer with Oehlen’s powerful and divergent forms, the layers of the composition are built upon one another to form an erratic and charged composition. With unremitting energy radiating throughout the composition and violent clashes of lines, Untitled gives an impression of visual chaos, with unruly linear configurations clamouring for attention. Black sensual lines intertwine, jostling against a white background they leave the viewer pondering where each line finds its beginning and end. Impulse seems to be at the core of Oehlen’s oeuvre, though on closer inspection the chaos has been carefully and aesthetically arranged. In his Computer Paintings the artist creates an abstracted pattern, first rendering his composition with a mouse, the artist then prints, silkscreens and or paints these gestures onto his chosen material, canvas or paper. Often combining these techniques, regardless of the repeated patterns, in his Computer Paintings , the artist creates varied and layered compositions. Composed on a computer programme, the series is founded on the notion of seriality. Through the process, Oehlen instills the work with a sense of irony as the use of the human hand to perfect the final product destroys the legitimacy of the term Computer Painting . Arguably scornful of the artist's hand, using digitally rendered images Oehlen appears to be questioning the skill of painting. In contrast, however, through perfecting the final image with oil paint, the artist celebrates the infinite potential of digital imagery. Disrupting, complicating and obscuring the pictorial plane, Untitled assertively pushes the boundaries of painting and compositional structures, engaging multiple perspectives. Utilising paper on canvas the artist increases the dimensionality of the work and questions the limits of the pictorial plane. Embracing digital manipulation, the artist began this celebrated series following the purchase of his first laptop computer in 1990 and only concluded the series around 2008. Executed in these final years, the present work encapsulates the artist’s creative genius. With the initial works from 1992 rendered in fully monochrome, from the mid-1990s the artist spent a period creating vibrantly coloured Computer Paintings before returning to black and white. In the present work we see the artist going back to his initial experimentations, devoid of colour. Untitled pays homage to the earlier works and is considered a consolidation of the artist’s perfected aesthetic. Having spent over a decade replicating computer derived digital motifs, Oehlen fully explored his abstract imagery through varying and manipulating the composition whilst persistently utilising the same imagery. Simultaneously a cataclysmic explosion of forms and a tempestuous abstract, violent configuration, Untitled synthesises the manual and the digital. Placing technology at the centre of Computer Paintings , the artist creates an innovative and mesmerising visual experience. The line is the protagonist of Oehlen’s work. The sensual delight of forms and the physical menace and tension of varied layers is evident at many points throughout his oeuvre. At times recalling Willem de Kooning’s graphical equilibrium, Oehlen masterfully interrogates the dimensionality of the picture plane. Similarly, invoking

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 5
Auktion:
Datum:
06.10.2017
Auktionshaus:
Phillips
London
Beschreibung:

5 Albert Oehlen Follow Untitled signed and dated 'A. Oehlen '08' on the reverse spray paint, inkjet, oil and paper on canvas 240 x 200.7 cm (94 1/2 x 79 in.) Executed in 2008.
Provenance Gagosian Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Catalogue Essay Central to the rehabilitation of painting in the 1980s and challenging the preconceived artistic canon, Albert Oehlen positioned himself as the enfant terrible of the 1980s German art scene. The present work, Untitled , is an outstanding example from Oehlen’s Computer Painting series, in which the artist first introduced digital technology into his disruptive painterly practice. As one of the first painters to unmistakably incorporate computer imagery in his works, the artist liberated the formal boundaries of painting through the pixelated nature of his compositions. Presenting the viewer with Oehlen’s powerful and divergent forms, the layers of the composition are built upon one another to form an erratic and charged composition. With unremitting energy radiating throughout the composition and violent clashes of lines, Untitled gives an impression of visual chaos, with unruly linear configurations clamouring for attention. Black sensual lines intertwine, jostling against a white background they leave the viewer pondering where each line finds its beginning and end. Impulse seems to be at the core of Oehlen’s oeuvre, though on closer inspection the chaos has been carefully and aesthetically arranged. In his Computer Paintings the artist creates an abstracted pattern, first rendering his composition with a mouse, the artist then prints, silkscreens and or paints these gestures onto his chosen material, canvas or paper. Often combining these techniques, regardless of the repeated patterns, in his Computer Paintings , the artist creates varied and layered compositions. Composed on a computer programme, the series is founded on the notion of seriality. Through the process, Oehlen instills the work with a sense of irony as the use of the human hand to perfect the final product destroys the legitimacy of the term Computer Painting . Arguably scornful of the artist's hand, using digitally rendered images Oehlen appears to be questioning the skill of painting. In contrast, however, through perfecting the final image with oil paint, the artist celebrates the infinite potential of digital imagery. Disrupting, complicating and obscuring the pictorial plane, Untitled assertively pushes the boundaries of painting and compositional structures, engaging multiple perspectives. Utilising paper on canvas the artist increases the dimensionality of the work and questions the limits of the pictorial plane. Embracing digital manipulation, the artist began this celebrated series following the purchase of his first laptop computer in 1990 and only concluded the series around 2008. Executed in these final years, the present work encapsulates the artist’s creative genius. With the initial works from 1992 rendered in fully monochrome, from the mid-1990s the artist spent a period creating vibrantly coloured Computer Paintings before returning to black and white. In the present work we see the artist going back to his initial experimentations, devoid of colour. Untitled pays homage to the earlier works and is considered a consolidation of the artist’s perfected aesthetic. Having spent over a decade replicating computer derived digital motifs, Oehlen fully explored his abstract imagery through varying and manipulating the composition whilst persistently utilising the same imagery. Simultaneously a cataclysmic explosion of forms and a tempestuous abstract, violent configuration, Untitled synthesises the manual and the digital. Placing technology at the centre of Computer Paintings , the artist creates an innovative and mesmerising visual experience. The line is the protagonist of Oehlen’s work. The sensual delight of forms and the physical menace and tension of varied layers is evident at many points throughout his oeuvre. At times recalling Willem de Kooning’s graphical equilibrium, Oehlen masterfully interrogates the dimensionality of the picture plane. Similarly, invoking

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 5
Auktion:
Datum:
06.10.2017
Auktionshaus:
Phillips
London
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