Beschreibung:
Through bold expressionist brushwork, surrealist methodology, computer-generated lines, and an acute awareness of the self-conscious act of painting, Oehlen fearlessly engages with the history of abstraction, multiplying the potential of visual codes through processes of layering and erosion. Central to his expansive oeuvre is the innate freedom of the creative act.0In many of the works, Oehlen paints over sections of black with the thinner yellow paint, producing ghostly, greenish shapes. Fragments of extremities, like flailing limbs and jutting branches, appear momentarily, only to dissolve, drip, or simply disappear. In this way, the compositions recall the Lascaux cave paintings in Montignac, France.0Shown together at Gagosian and Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, this new body of work unapologetically reveals Oehlen?s ongoing resistance to painterly expectation.00Exhibition: Gagosian Paris & Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France (13.11.-21.12.2018)