Albert Oehlen: New Paintings Kara Walker Housed in a slipcase

Housed in a slipcase

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Wood’s painting The down payment (2021) portrays a weeping Jerome in the midst of what the artist calls “the most directly surreal part of the story

these works use historical and religious symbolism to embody worldwide anxieties of the unknown

this is the most comprehensive monograph to date

Albert Oehlen: New Paintings Kara Walker Housed in a slipcaseThis book was published on the occasion of Albert Oehlen: New Paintings at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. The exhibition featured a set of dynamic compositions in which Oehlen continues to riff on a range of visual fragments, forms, and motifs, echoing the mechanisms of cinematography and the process of sampling in music. As he divides, distorts, and reimagines his images and marks, the artist erodes barriers between abstraction and figuration,