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Albert Oehlen

Rodchenko I

  • Year1982
  • MaterialAcrylic on canvas
  • Year of acquisition2017
  • Inventory numberUAB 1063
  • On viewCurrently not exhibited

More about the artwork

Albert Oehlen’s early works systematically connect
conflicting traditions from the history of painting. He
is interested in the key moments of criticism. Here, for
instance, he revisits Alexander Rodchenko, a Russian
Constructivist, who had proposed in the 1920s that art
should, above all, serve society—a clear rejection of
the self-referentiality of painting.
Oehlen’s paintings are based on a photograph of
Rodchenko’s wife, Varvara Stepanova, with students
from Moscow’s Vkhutemas art school, and a picture
of Rodchenko’s spatial constructions. But these artists
and artworks of the avant-garde do not seem heroic
here. The wooden sculptures look like dusty objects
found in an attic, and the individuals in the upper
painting come across as somewhat clumsy. Oehlen
is not so much attempting to distance himself from
these earlier artists’ ideas but rather tracing, in a
nostalgic manner, the revolutionary spirit of the time:
By the 1980s, artistic utopias had receded into the
distance. Finally, they would end up in the bourgeois
medium of painting themselves.

Further artworks

Malerei von Nicole Eisenman, die zwei Figuren mit einer Katze in einem Biergarten zeigen
Nicole Eisenman Beer Garden with Ulrike and Celeste, 2009 Basement floor
Cy Twombly, Lepanto IX, 2001, UAB 477Lepanto Zyklus aus der Sammlung Brandhorst
Cy Twombly Lepanto IX, 2001 Upper floor
Cy Twombly, Celtic Boat, 1994
Cy Twombly Celtic Boat (Gaeta), 1994 Upper floor
Werkabbildung Cy Twombly, Bacchanalia - Fall (5 Days in November), 1977 im Museum Brandhorst in München Teil der Sammlung Brandhorst
Cy Twombly Bacchanalia – Fall (5 Days in November), 1977 Upper floor
Skulptur eines blauen Kopfes, der nach rechts geneigt ist.
Nicole Eisenman Sleeping Frat Guy, 2013 Basement floor