<p>Surveying the past thirty years of his career and demonstrating his immeasurable influence on contemporary painting, Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden comprises paintings, drawings, and prints from the artist’s most important bodies of work. From the beginning of his career, Oehlen set himself the task of exploring the language, structures, and experiences of painting. He has managed to reinvigorate the genres of portraiture, collage, and gestural abstraction in work that deploys a staggering range of imagery and techniques. Oehlen’s canvases capture haunting interiors, mutating self-portraits, archaic and digital landscapes, and cryptic fragments of language. As a younger generation of artists turns again to painting as a critical medium, Oehlen’s work has only become more influential and prescient.</p>

Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden

Arts & Photography

Gioni, Massimiliano

Pontégnie, Anne

Godfrey, Mark

Individual Artists

Skira/Rizzoli

Jointly conceived by Mike Kelley and Franz West, this book documents their exhibitions in Brussels and Angouleme in 1999. Included are never-before published texts and a series of photographs of their conversation play To Be Read Aloud.

Mike Kelley / Franz West

Bastide, Catherine

History & Criticism

Pakesch & Schlebrugge

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

Holzwarth Publications

This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition of the Cranford Collection in Spain in the Hall of Fundacíon Santander next February 2013, curated by Anne Pontégnie.

Cranford Collection: Out of the House

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

T.F. Editores, S.L.C.

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