Albert Oehlen Takasha Murakami Jed Perl composes an abecedarium

Jed Perl composes an abecedarium of Alexander Calder’s lifelong engagements with theater and dance

to make his interior portraits

which presents artworks in emblematic public spaces throughout the city

and mummies—and Fly Paintings

Albert Oehlen Takasha Murakami Jed Perl composes an abecedariumThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Albert Oehlen at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. The featured works include a group of Oehlens aluminum panel tree paintings, in which the artist employs a schematic version of an arboreal motif as a tool for undermining the role of identifiable images. Rendering forms in vivid, contrasting hues of red, black, white, and blue, he produces a series of silhouettes that suggest the use of design