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Omegan Man is painting no. 23 in a series in which Oehlen draws inspiration from the film The Omega Man (1971), a post-apocalyptic film starring Dr Robert Neville, the sole survivor of a global pandemic, fighting for his life in the Los Angeles desert.
The painting depicts a white form – a spatial element resembling a human arm – cutting through a chaotic landscape rendered in an explosion of colour.
As is always the case with this artist, the title serves as a pretext for the painting, but as it was created during the Covid pandemic, it takes on an additional layer of meaning.
Crédit artiste : © Adagp, Paris, 2024 Crédit photographique : © Louis Vuitton / Sun Shi
Albert Oehlen graduated from the Academy of Hamburg, where he studied under Sigmar Polke. He explores the pictorial medium through an artistic process in which he unceasingly reinvents the rules for each new series.
He explores the medium—from figurative to abstract—using a variety of tools and innovative techniques to reinvent forms of painting and push their limits, making each painting a unique universe.
