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Artwork and Paintings From Albert Oehlen Artist at the Saatchi Gallery

October 30th, 2009

Albert Oehlen’s work focuses exclusively on exposing art’s failures. Borrowing from the tropes of traditional abstract painting, Oehlen readily subverts art’s lofty idealism. Using traditional forms and techniques, he conceives a contemporary dialogue of criticism based on the possibilities of creative function rather than aesthetics. In a modern world where painting is considered dead, Albert Oehlen reinvents its life as a manic zombie state: mutated, funny and ideologically dangerous.

BIOGRAPHY

1954

Born in Krefeld, Germany

Currently lives and works in Bizkaia, Spain

1978

Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, BA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005

Spiegelbilder 1982-1985 Max Hetzler, Berlin

2004

Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne

The Good Life Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York

2003

Alfonso Artiaco, Naples

2002

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels

2001

Self Portraits Skarstedt Fine Art, New York

Checkers Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt

2000

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica

1999

Lord, Pferdeflusterer, Antichrist Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

1998

Galerie Mikael Anderson, Copenhagen

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1997

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Baladas Heavy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

1996

Obras Recientes Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005

Groundswell MOMA, New York

2004

Pixels Stellan Holm Gallery, New York

Hot Ice: Recent Painting from the Scharpff Collection Kunstalle, Hamburg

2003

Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon Lyon

Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2000

Painting on the Move Kunstmuseum, Basel

Glee: Painting Now Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida

1999

Decades in Dialogue Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Digital Sites Numark Gallery, Washington

Sammlung Essl: The First View Klosterneuburg, Vienna

1998

Recollection Kunstverein, Graz

Georg Herold / Albert Oehlen Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Selbstportraits Galerie Barbel Grasslin, Frankfurt

Fast Forward Archives Kunstverein, Hamburg

1997

Display Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen

1996

On Paper II Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis

Peinture-Peinture Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris

Provins – Legende Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde

Article Theme :-

Albert 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.Albert Oehlen is a master of ironic wit and his paintings are elaborate strategies of provocation. In Untitled, Albert Oehlen subverts the authority of the avant-garde, creating an abstraction of dumbed-down abjection. His painting poses as a deceptive icon of aesthetic contemplation, punctuated with flirtatious eyes returning the viewer’s gaze.

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Selected Fang Lijun Artwork at Saatchi-gallery

September 7th, 2009

Fang Lijun is known to be one of the main forerunners of the early 1990’s movement known as Cynical Realism. This artistic trendevolved as a result of the aftermath of the 1989 student demonstrations in Tiananmen and the closing of the “China Avant-Garde” exhibition at the China national Gallery in Beijing.Fang Lijun born in 1963 in Handan, Hebei province is one of the leading and most influential contemporary artists in china.

The exhibition of their works at the China National Gallery was the culmination of that decade and signalled to the artists that they had been recognised. The dramatic closure of the exhibition soon after it’s opening marked the destruction of those goals. The 1990s were characterised by a loss of idealism, a more ironical, a more personal viewpoint and a greater detachment from any regeneration of culture and society – a cold, realistic view of changing Chinese society

Fang Lijun’s work has been exhibited at:

1) The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2) Pompidou Museum, Paris

3_ Museum of Modern Art, New York

4) National Gallery of Art, Beijing

5) Venice Biennials, Kwangju Biennials, Sao Paulo Biennale

6) every significant exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art since 1990

Fang Lijun painting owned by the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Series 2 – Number 2, 1992. The main figure, a friend of the artist, could be yawning or yelling while the mute, menacing figures in the background bring to mind mindless, manipulated masses. Fang Lijun’s famous figure, have already become well known icons in the world of Chinese contemporary art. Fang Lijun’s bald man with his ambiguous expression and dreamlike background of unlimited space and freedom became a symbol of the subtle mockery that one can detect in the works of the Cynical Realism artists.

CONCLUSION:

Fang Lijun’s practice exhibits a rarefied technical skill rigorously studied through his Social Realist training; his combination of this aesthetic with references to contemporary comics, folk art, and dynastic painting characterise a national identity in flux, distilling a position of integrity from tradition and the modern world.

Find More about Fang Lijun Paintings and Exhibitions at Saatchi-Gallery

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