ALBERT OEHLEN – NEW PAINTINGS
2024-03-25Oehlen’s images are divided, repeated, and distorted to conjure a new pictorial narrative. His original source is reimagined; it is at times decipherable, and at others annihilated. The subject of these paintings is, arguably, unimportant; it is the act of transferring images into a new state that is now significant. The result is sometimes a regular, repeated composition that follows from one section to the next. Yet in other paintings, he chooses much more irregular twists and turns, filled with different possible shapes and endings. There is no barrier between abstraction and figuration, improvisation and control, only the endless potential of the medium.
Opposite – Untitled, 2023
Exhibition runs through to May 11th, 2024
Gagosian
20 Grosvenor Hill
W1K 3Qd
London
