Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. It brings together two groups of works: the Tree Paintings, permutations of an ongoing series that Oehlen began more than thirty years ago, which in this iteration are distinguished by a palette limited to predominantly black and red, and the Elevator Paintings, allover polychromatic compositions in which the artist stages oppositions between clear contours and amorphous blurs. The publication features an essay by Andreas van Dühren.