Albert Oehlen - Schweinekubismus

Albert Oehlen 's exhibition Schweinekubismus (pig cubism) presents three diverse work groups made between 2021 and 2024: There are large-format shaped canvases from the Omega-Man series, whose outlines resemble an _ symbol that strikes a cartoon-like pose, circumscribing an arena where different forms of abstractions collide-color fields, gestural strokes, palette splotches. There are aluminum sculptures that translate omega-related shapes into 3-D torsos of lumpen bodies and tube-like extensions, forms that almost threaten to become function. And then there are untitled canvases that take up elements from different periods in the artist 's earlier work to maybe illustrate the show 's title: they wallow in joyful colors, some areas free-flowing, some stacked on top of each other like a most literal take on cubism.