Albert Oehlen - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 16, 2006 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich

  • Exhibited

    Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Albert Oehlen, January 21 - March 31, 2005

  • Catalogue Essay

    “Given my history, my political past, my environment, etc., I should be a political and conceptual artist. But I’m not. The longer artists work, the narrower their path usually becomes, and the more possibilities drop by the wayside. I’m no different—I reject things too, as I’ve said. But other artists build schemes out of their rejections, then use those schemes to systemize and justify their subsequent work. They talk about clarity: the more schematic their work becomes, the more clarity they think they’ve gained. I direct this moment of clarity, this subtotal of decisions and rejections, toward the point I call ‘autonomy’, though you could also call it ‘negation’ or ‘negativity’. (Albert Oehlen as quoted in D. Diederischen, “The Rules of the Game”, Artforum, November, 1994, p. 71)

35

Untitled

1993
Oil on canvas.
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. (200 x 200 cm).
Signed and dated "A. Oehlen 93" on the reverse.

Estimate
$180,000 - 220,000 

Sold for $273,600

Contemporary Art Part I

16 Nov 2006, 7pm
New York