{"id":1390,"date":"2016-02-24T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graphicdisplayusa.com\/blog\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2016-04-04T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T14:22:47","slug":"contemporary-artist-creates-abstract-tree-paintings-on-dibond-aluminum-composite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/contemporary-artist-creates-abstract-tree-paintings-on-dibond-aluminum-composite\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Artist Creates Abstract Tree Paintings On Dibond Aluminum Composite"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Albert<\/a>
\n\u2018Alarming\u2019 \u2026 a detail from Untitled (Baum 44), 2015, by Albert Oehlen. Photograph: Stefan Rohner\/Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
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\nRecently, Sean O’Hagan at The Guardian interviewed Albert Oehlen about his Gagosian Gallery exhibition in Mayfair. O’Hagan\u2019s interview explores the artist\u2019s skeletal tree paintings, but also is an examination of the artist himself. Oehlen\u2019s interpretations of trees, being abstract and minimalistic in nature, are painted on the artists\u2019 substrate of choice, Dibond aluminum composite.
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\n\"Albert<\/a>Oehlen explains in O\u2019Hagan\u2019s interview, \u201cI like the stiffness. It has this modern technological feel to it, and it\u2019s actually much easier to paint on than canvas. I wasn\u2019t looking for another surface, I just tried it one day and liked it.\u201d
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\nOehlen is an incredibly interesting subject in himself, struggling conceptually to make art that is entertaining, but also utilizing an attitude of ambiguity related to the meanings of his works.
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\n\"Albert<\/a>He\u2019s sort of relaxed, doesn\u2019t take himself or his work too seriously, even created a series of what he called \u201cbad paintings\u201d during the Junge Wilde\/Wild Youth art movement in Germany. This in fact gave the artist his \u201cpunk\u201d reputation, although he didn\u2019t consider himself one [a punk] at the time. He breaks traditionally artist boundaries by admitting he \u201cdidn\u2019t care\u201d about color for a long time, in the interview.
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\nHis trees, the progressive work of decades, as he describes them, \u201cThey are more simple and more complicated now,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen you place those black lines against a magenta background, something alarming happens. Magenta is a hysterical colour somehow. To me, they look like psychopathic trees \u2013 psychopathic humantrees.\u201d
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\nOehlen then makes an interesting revelation that answers any art enthusiasts notions of the meaning of works by posthumous artists, where he explains the meaning of his works as unimportant, people will determine meanings on their own; he just wants to continue experimenting and making new works.
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\ninformation courtesy of The Guardian<\/a>
\nphotography © Stefan Rohner, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Alarming\u2019 \u2026 a detail from Untitled (Baum 44), 2015, by Albert Oehlen. Photograph: Stefan Rohner\/Courtesy Gagosian Gallery Recently, Sean O’Hagan at The Guardian interviewed Albert Oehlen about his Gagosian Gallery exhibition in Mayfair. O’Hagan\u2019s interview explores the artist\u2019s skeletal tree paintings, but also is an examination of the artist himself. Oehlen\u2019s interpretations of trees, being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[114,172,224,116,142,96,288,140],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dibond-projects","tag-acm","tag-acp","tag-aluminum-composite","tag-aluminum-panels","tag-art","tag-dibond","tag-oil-on-panel","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}