Albert Oehlen - Contemporary Artists

Piece

Albert Oehlen, Piece The Saatchi Gallery
 

Albert Oehlen

Piece

2003, Oil on Canvas

280 x 340cm

In Piece, Oehlen combines aspects of figurative sexuality, mechanical distance and painterly abstraction. It's a bastard hybrid of painting, incorporating smooth polished forms, heavy brushwork and the implied photo-gloss of airbrush. The end result is more like a collage than a painting: a loud and exasperating argument in different tongues, promising never to be resolved for lack of a common idiom.
 
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