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. |