In a collaborative process made simple, Albert Oehlen provides
the photographic material and both artists take turns painting
around it. None of these works are immediately recognisable
as Albert Oehlen or Meese, and that's what makes them so
good. Like a nuclear fusion, the two become one; an invincible
super-artist refining the best qualities of both.
The Greeting is a ridiculous portrait of a lumpy
gangly-armed housewife waving about a feather duster/penis,
teetering on glamour model's legs. They render her almost
obscenely repulsive, but the sexual delusion of the male
gaze is inevitable: the artists' collage in a mirror to
peek up her dress.