Albert Oehlen "Abstract Reality" Solo Exhibition

FM 17 mixed media painting 190x220 cm 2008 Albert Oehlen "Abstract Reality" solo exhibition: on display from October 1 to January 3, 2010 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Albert Oehlen (born 1954) is one of the young generation of German Neo-Expressionist painters from the 1990s, exploring across diverse forms of creation: painting, illustration, music, publishing, etc., and believes painting is the ultimate creative art form. He continues to question painting while simultaneously submitting to pictorial themes, transforming his painting between emotional figuration and abstraction within the creed of art as art.

For Albert Oehlen, the pictorial space is above all a field of battle before anything else. His works from the 1990s reveal a latent conflict between abnormal visual logics, emotionally displayed in his fluid yet incoherent lines and colors. Albert Oehlen's recent works demonstrate this extraordinary painting exploration, using numerous collaged graphics through complex production processes, in a novel experimental exploration and simultaneous appropriation. In these computer-output figurative or abstract graphics, he directly engages in possible painting creation based on the image, following the existing forms, colors, and line perceptions of the graphics.

Aided by instinctive action abstract expression techniques, bold colors, forms, and emotional brushstrokes, within polymorphic figurative and abstract forms, under rigorous structure and vibrant colors and lines, they overflow with rich emotion and extraordinary material tension. Between figuration and abstraction, time and space, reality and imagination. Albert Oehlen says: "I don't know what I really want, but I know I paint what I like to paint. (...) In the 1980s the colors I painted were so simple, objects all had black outlines, looking somewhat clumsy. In the 1990s I liked vibrant colors, paintings were full of an unrestrained feeling atmosphere. Now I handle colors more carefully and cautiously. Within a necessary rigorous order, I intend to secretly produce a surprising and outstanding painting."