Albert Oehlen - Property from The Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium London Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris

  • Catalogue Essay

    Albert Oehlen has redefined the medium of painting in an international context beyond the hype of the late seventies and eighties. The artist is not concerned with continuing and defending a traditional field of art; he rather intends to open a discourse on the panel painting vis-à-vis the new media and also vis-à-vis his personal history. Jokingly and with assumed indifference towards the form of presentation as well as with surprising shifts of meaning, comments on predominate values and ideologies within the world of art and on the classic concept of the picture. In this process, he employs both figurative and abstract elements.
    From www.secession.at

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Das Gewicht der Ladung (The Weight of the Freight)

2002
Silkscreen, oil and spraypaint on canvas.
78 1/4 x 65 7/8 in. (198.8 x 167.3 cm).

Estimate
£90,000 - 120,000 

Sold for £108,500

Property from The Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium

3 Apr 2008, 4pm
London