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Albert Oehlen @ Gagosian

PHOTOGRAPHY /

© 2021 Albert Oehlen

Courtesy of:
Gagosian

Indivdual views:
Simon Vogel

Installation views:
Jeff McLane

Studio portrait:
Esther Freund

CREDITS /

May 31, 2021 

2-TIMES  Art
Albert Oehlen,
Tramonto Spaventoso
@ Gagosian
— 

Championing self-
consciously 
amateurish
‘bad’ 
painting, Oehlen
continues to infuse
expressive gesture 
with Surrealist attitude,
openly 
disparaging
the 
quest for reliable
form and stable
meaning...” 

Born:
 
1954 — Krefeld,
Germany. 

Title translation:

Terrifying Sunset. 

The exhibition:
 
In the large-scale
canvases on view
at the Beverly Hills
gallery, Oehlen employs
acrylic, spray paint,
charcoal, and patterned
fabric to interpret
and transform John
Graham’s 
painting 
Tramonto Spaventoso 
(1940–49)
, a work by
the Russian-born American
modernist painter that
he discovered in the
1990's and has been
fascinated with ever
since. 

In explosive
abstractions in
acrylic and spray
paint, he combines
graphic brushstrokes,
deliberate “painterly”
drips,surprising color
combinations, and
textural obfuscations
to test the limits of
coherence and
legibility.
” 

Accompanying 
playlist: 
Steamboat Switzerland

On view at: 
Gagosian, Beverly Hills
— 
456 N Camden Dr,
Beverly Hills,
CA 90210,
United States. 

Closes: 
June 5, 2021.