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Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden | Contemporary Painting Symposium

Cover Image: Albert Oehlen, Der vergiftete Asket [The Poisoned Ascetic], 1992. Silkscreen and acrylic on paper, 79 × 63 3/8 in (200.5 × 161 cm). Private collection. Image courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

Albert Oehlen, Der vergiftete Asket [The Poisoned Ascetic], 1992. Private collection. Image courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

PANEL 1: Contemporary Abstraction
Panelists: Josh Smith, Mika Tajima, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Moderator: Maria Lind

Panel I: Contemporary Abstraction
This first panel of the one-day symposium will focus on the resurgence of abstraction in the last several years, particularly in painting. It will investigate what distinguishes these recent experiments, conceptually and materially, from earlier practices, making the case that new abstraction is symptomatic of and bound to the present moment. Bringing together three painters with distinct oeuvres—that have been, at times, linked to the legacy of German painting, or even of Albert Oehlen himself—the panel will consider abstract painting in relation to other contemporary manifestations of abstraction in economics (market speculation), philosophy (anti-essentialist thought, questions around the structure of time, semiotics), digital culture (sampling, rendering), and aesthetics more generally (considerations of form, the notion of style).

PANEL 2: Digital Abstraction
Panelists: Kerstin Brätsch, Florian Meisenberg, and Ken Okiishi
Moderator: Alexander Galloway

Panel II: Digital Abstraction
This panel will hone in on abstract painting influenced by digital imaging techniques, digital technologies, and new/post media theory. Such practices may pose questions about painting or art itself, building on the historical tensions between abstraction and representation, or are incidentally, yet inexorably symptomatic of the expanded possibilities for image-making in recent years. The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image-based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l’oeil and “topographical” painting.











When: Sat., Jul. 25, 2015 at 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: New Museum
235 Bowery
212-219-1222
Price: $10
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Cover Image: Albert Oehlen, Der vergiftete Asket [The Poisoned Ascetic], 1992. Silkscreen and acrylic on paper, 79 × 63 3/8 in (200.5 × 161 cm). Private collection. Image courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

Albert Oehlen, Der vergiftete Asket [The Poisoned Ascetic], 1992. Private collection. Image courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

PANEL 1: Contemporary Abstraction
Panelists: Josh Smith, Mika Tajima, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Moderator: Maria Lind

Panel I: Contemporary Abstraction
This first panel of the one-day symposium will focus on the resurgence of abstraction in the last several years, particularly in painting. It will investigate what distinguishes these recent experiments, conceptually and materially, from earlier practices, making the case that new abstraction is symptomatic of and bound to the present moment. Bringing together three painters with distinct oeuvres—that have been, at times, linked to the legacy of German painting, or even of Albert Oehlen himself—the panel will consider abstract painting in relation to other contemporary manifestations of abstraction in economics (market speculation), philosophy (anti-essentialist thought, questions around the structure of time, semiotics), digital culture (sampling, rendering), and aesthetics more generally (considerations of form, the notion of style).

PANEL 2: Digital Abstraction
Panelists: Kerstin Brätsch, Florian Meisenberg, and Ken Okiishi
Moderator: Alexander Galloway

Panel II: Digital Abstraction
This panel will hone in on abstract painting influenced by digital imaging techniques, digital technologies, and new/post media theory. Such practices may pose questions about painting or art itself, building on the historical tensions between abstraction and representation, or are incidentally, yet inexorably symptomatic of the expanded possibilities for image-making in recent years. The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image-based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l’oeil and “topographical” painting.

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