About this artwork
Albert Oehlen is known for anti-authoritarian work that attempts to reassess the role of painting in postwar Germany. Untitled is from a series that the artist began in the late 1990s, in which he used basic computer technology to “draw” gesture. After printing these already-mediated images, enlarging and silkscreening them onto canvas, he painted over them—either erasing lines and shapes with white paint, extending marks with black brushstrokes, or adding spurts of spray paint. Exploring the dichotomy of the virtual and the handmade, these hybrid paintings raise questions about what constitutes freedom and control, addressing the intimate relationship between computer technology and human labor.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Albert Oehlen
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Title
- Untitled
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1997
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Medium
- Screen print, acrylic and oil on canvas
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Dimensions
- 245 × 190.5 cm (96 1/2 × 75 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Donna and Howard Stone
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Reference Number
- 2023.3089
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Copyright
- © 1997/2019 Albert Oehlen
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