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| Article number | 9783954767267 |
| Price | 40,00 € |
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Albert Oehlen
Computer Paintings
13.09.2024 - 02.03.2025 | Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue | Language German
The first ‘computer pictures’ by the painter Albert Oehlen (*1954) were created in the early 1990s, a second series in the early 2000s. The basis was a notebook purchased in 1990, on which the first drawings were made, which the painter then transferred to canvas. The aesthetics dictated by the technology, with its staircase and block effects, became a momentous starting point for a body of work that oscillates between cool sparseness and an imaginatively proliferating variety of forms.
The idea of producing art with the help of a computer seems excitingly contemporary in view of the heated debate about artificial intelligence in 2023, but it becomes even more exciting if you take Oehlen's artistic conclusions from his involvement with computer art seriously: ‘The human hand will have to finish it’.
The exhibition ‘Computerbilder’ is being created for the first floor of the Galerie der Gegenwart in close collaboration with the artist and is a hanging of this hitherto rarely shown complex of works by Albert Oehlen that is tailored to the exhibition venue. The geometric austerity of the daylight-flooded rooms of the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers is an ideal setting for a painting that evokes analogies to musical compositional techniques as well as questions about the contrasting fertilisation of technique and artistic expression.
Curator Prof. Dr Alexander Klar | Assistant Curator Ifee Tack
Hardcover edition | 40 colour illustrations | Publisher Alexander Klar / Hamburger Kunsthalle | 160 pages | Dimensions (L/W/H) 31.2/24.8/2.2 cm | Weight 1305 g | Language German
Computer Paintings
13.09.2024 - 02.03.2025 | Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue | Language German
The first ‘computer pictures’ by the painter Albert Oehlen (*1954) were created in the early 1990s, a second series in the early 2000s. The basis was a notebook purchased in 1990, on which the first drawings were made, which the painter then transferred to canvas. The aesthetics dictated by the technology, with its staircase and block effects, became a momentous starting point for a body of work that oscillates between cool sparseness and an imaginatively proliferating variety of forms.
The idea of producing art with the help of a computer seems excitingly contemporary in view of the heated debate about artificial intelligence in 2023, but it becomes even more exciting if you take Oehlen's artistic conclusions from his involvement with computer art seriously: ‘The human hand will have to finish it’.
The exhibition ‘Computerbilder’ is being created for the first floor of the Galerie der Gegenwart in close collaboration with the artist and is a hanging of this hitherto rarely shown complex of works by Albert Oehlen that is tailored to the exhibition venue. The geometric austerity of the daylight-flooded rooms of the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers is an ideal setting for a painting that evokes analogies to musical compositional techniques as well as questions about the contrasting fertilisation of technique and artistic expression.
Curator Prof. Dr Alexander Klar | Assistant Curator Ifee Tack
Hardcover edition | 40 colour illustrations | Publisher Alexander Klar / Hamburger Kunsthalle | 160 pages | Dimensions (L/W/H) 31.2/24.8/2.2 cm | Weight 1305 g | Language German
