Albert Oehlen - Unverstandliche Braune Bilder

The book presents two new series by painter Albert Oehlen: there are the "incomprehensible brown pictures," in which he takes up elements of his earlier abstract work to combine them in new ways and take up our traditional idea of the painting as an enigmatic object from another time. Alongside these are the O-Norm paintings, in which the artist elegantly balances or wrestles with forms on canvases defining the artist's current aesthetic standard between painting and collage. These twenty works from the years 2020-2021 were shown in a double exhibition at two venues of Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin. They are presented here in a bibliophile leporello edition, once as a sequence of work illustrations and, on the opposite, in installation views that invite the reader to walk through the exhibition spaces.