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Albert Oehlen in his studio, Ispaster, Spain, 2020. Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Esther Freund

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Albert Oehlen
Tramonto Spaventoso

Albert Oehlen has created a playlist of fourteen tracks on Spotify ranging in genres from free jazz to techno. Featuring musicians such as Steamboat Switzerland and Colin Stetson, the playlist shares the title of his upcoming exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, in which he interprets and transforms John Graham’s painting Tramonto Spaventoso (Terrifying Sunset) (1940–49). The artist discovered the work by the Russian-born American modernist painter in the 1990s and has been fascinated with it ever since.

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Albert Oehlen in his studio, Ispaster, Spain, 2020. Artwork © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Esther Freund

Still from “Albert Oehlen: Endless Possibilities of Interpretation”

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Albert Oehlen
Endless Possibilities of Interpretation

In this video, Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, and Joseph Constable, assistant curator, discuss the inspirations behind the works in Albert Oehlen’s 2019–20 exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, and the ensemble Steamboat Switzerland performs a newly configured soundtrack inside the exhibition.

Still from “Albert Oehlen: Endless Possibilities of Interpretation”

Albert Oehlen: The History

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Albert Oehlen: The History
Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 Online Viewing Room

We can now see that this painting marks the exact point where all of Oehlen’s influences—de Kooning, Rauschenberg, Richter, Polke—come to a head, and how it acts as a departure point for what he will do over the next thirty years.
—Sam Orlofsky

Learn more about Albert Oehlen and the history behind this monumental 1988 painting with Gagosian directors Andrew Fabricant and Sam Orlofsky.

Albert Oehlen: The Market

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Albert Oehlen: The Market
Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 Online Viewing Room

We have long followed Oehlen’s work and watched it develop over time. It’s clear that we are on the verge of an upward trajectory. It’s just a perfect moment for him and this painting.
—Andrew Fabricant

Gagosian directors Andrew Fabricant and Sam Orlofsky discuss the recent sales trends for Albert Oehlen and where they see his market heading.

Still from “Albert Oehlen and Glenn Brown”

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Albert Oehlen and Glenn Brown

In this video, Albert Oehlen and Glenn Brown have a conversation on the occasion of Oehlen’s 2016 exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Filmed inside the gallery, the pair discuss Oehlen’s thought process behind the new aluminum-panel paintings—rendered in various combinations of red, black, blue, and white—in which Oehlen uses treelike forms as vehicles for a methodical deflation of content.

Still from “Albert Oehlen and Glenn Brown”

Still from “School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2015 Commencement Address: Albert Oehlen”

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Albert Oehlen
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2015 Commencement Address

Albert Oehlen delivered the commencement address at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. In his humorous and insightful speech, he considers the importance of freedom to artistic practice. As artists, Oehlen reminds graduates, “we are technicians of freedom, and it is our duty to make use of this privilege.”

Still from “School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2015 Commencement Address: Albert Oehlen”