The Painter - Film by Oliver Hirschbiegel and Albert Oehlen
Screening, in collaboration with LUMA Arles
11:00 – 12:40
As part of the exhibition La Haute Note Jaune, which features several paintings by German artist Albert Oehlen,
we are organising a screening of the film The Painter made in 2021 by the artist and Oliver Hirschbiegel, a docu-drama starring Ben Becker and the voice of Charlotte Rampling.
(!) The screening will take place in the LUMA Arles auditorium, located in the Tower on level 1.
Free, online reservation recommended HERE
Original version: German – English subtitles
about the film
Fiction, documentary, filmed performance? Actor Ben Becker plays Albert Oehlen, a painter creating a painting. The film crosses formal boundaries and questions the meaning of the creative process and the struggle for authenticity at different levels. As the painter himself says, ‘Art must show its internal process of creation, like a stripped-down, totally visible mechanism, and must not be the artist’s field of sensitive expression’. /Jean-Charles Vergne
about the artist Albert Oehlen
Born 1954 in Krefeld, Germany; lives in Gais, Switzerland
Albert Oehlen’s work, linked to neo-Expressionism, draws on conceptual gestures and logic. It is rooted in the punk movement and German left-wing ideology of the 1970s; the artist constantly questions the authoritarian and dominant nature of painting, attempting to free it from its historical obligations and references. The result is a body of experimental work that grapples with the many ideological and formal crises of the contemporary age.