Albert Oehlen: In Der Wohnung - Hardcover

9783905929959: Albert Oehlen: In Der Wohnung

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3905929953 ISBN 13: 9783905929959

Publisher: Patrick Frey Editions, 2015

In der Wohnung is a book about the long-standing tradition of representations of domestic interiors. Since antiquity, painting has played with the motif of the interior: the symbol of depth, evoked by every form of illustration. It has always been an important subject to Albert Oehlen, a German painter now based in Appenzell, Switzerland. In his latest collages he works with source materials drawn from art history, transforming works by the likes of Vuillard and Dal� into pop art "panels". In collaboration with Oehlen, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen put together a collective exhibition in the spring of 2014 at the Gebert Stiftung f�r Kultur in Rapperswil-Jona near Z�rich, spanning the broad range of different approaches to the painting of interiors in contemporary art. The book In der Wohnung has now come out in the series STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey. It is a journey through time that begins in a landscape in which the viewer comes across works from Oehlen's oeuvre referring to paintings by Thomas Arnolds, Richard Artschwager, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Roy Lichtenstein et al. Then we see a building in the landscape, rooms inside that building, and we have arrived for a tour of the Albert Oehlen exhibition In der Wohnung.

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Niels Olsen is codirector of gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich.

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