Albert Oehlen (B. 1954)
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Albert Oehlen (B. 1954)

Conduction 2

Details
Albert Oehlen (B. 1954)
Conduction 2
signed and dated 'A. Oehlen 09’ (on the reverse)
charcoal and acrylic on canvas
106¼ x 126in. (270 x 320cm.)
Executed in 2009
Provenance
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Albert Oehlen, 2011.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘I actually forced myself into the computer stuff to have that exchange affect all my paintings... Of course some are black and white, and have these lines going their way while others have more mud and, I don’t know.. fog and whatever, but they have a lot to do with each other. The process of making these black and white computer generated images is also similar to the others, because I begin with a print and then start treating it. This treatment goes further than one thinks at first sight, because the idea is to have it and to be unhappy with it...I try to have something really difficult or daring because the more daring it is, the more surprising the result is’ (A. Oehlen, quoted in ‘Conversation with Andrea Tarsia’, in I Always Champion Good Painting: Albert Oehlen, exh. cat., Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2006, p. II).

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