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Albert Oehlen — Greifen
Albert Oehlen

Greifen

"Greifen" by Albert Oehlen is a dynamic and aggressively layered composition executed in oil and acrylic on canvas, showcasing the artist's signature fusion of gestural abstraction and calculated chaos. Oehlen's signature visual language emerges through turbulent brushwork and a collision of forms that challenges the boundaries between figuration and pure abstraction. The work embodies his ongoing interrogation of painting's possibilities, using raw mark-making and shifting tonal contrasts to create a tension-filled surface that resists easy resolution.

Medium
oil, acrylic on canvas

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

February 12, 2015

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Albert Oehlen, Greifen

"Greifen" by Albert Oehlen is a dynamic and aggressively layered composition executed in oil and acrylic on canvas, showcasing the artist's signature fusion of gestural abstraction and calculated chaos. Oehlen's signature visual language emerges through turbulent brushwork and a collision of forms that challenges the boundaries between figuration and pure abstraction. The work embodies his ongoing interrogation of painting's possibilities, using raw mark-making and shifting tonal contrasts to create a tension-filled surface that resists easy resolution.

Medium
oil, acrylic on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Bold, Dynamic, Gestural, Expressionist, Modern, German, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, Colorful, Abstract, Contemporary

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