DJ Techno 2001

Albert Oehlen, he's a wild one! And this painting, DJ Techno, is like a total jam session on canvas. I imagine Oehlen slinging paint, layering wild marks like a DJ mixing tracks. Check out the yellows and oranges, fighting it out with muddy browns and blacks. He’s not precious, he just lets it happen, like a crazy accident. I bet it was a build-up of weeks of activity in the studio with a lot of trial and error. There's this brown waterfall of paint smack in the middle. What’s that about? Is it supposed to be something? And then there's these shapes scattered around. The more you look the stranger it gets... You know, painting is like a conversation between artists. Oehlen is in dialogue with all the painters that came before, twisting their ideas, pushing boundaries, trying to find something new, something honest. It's never a final statement, just a moment in an ongoing exchange.