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Albert Olen / Carroll Dunham. The trees

Exhibition November 30, 2019 − March 1, 2020
World famous artists Carroll Dunham and Albert Olen, who have a huge influence on the younger generation of artists, will be first presented together at the exhibition "Trees".

Both artists are known for their extremely independent and complex work. At the very moment when Albert Olen moved from figurative "bad painting" to abstraction in the late 1980s, Carroll Dunham went in the opposite direction, turning from his early organic abstract work into a surreal configuration in which different characters form entire blocks of work, which in turn rely on each other with almost conceptual rigor.

Nowhere are these aspects manifested so clearly as in the theme of trees, which both artists have repeatedly included in their work and interpreted in their own way. While Albert Olen's trees are bare and leafless, with roots that sometimes dominate and become a figurative impulse in abstract paintings, in Carroll Dunham's works they are shown to be blooming, whipped by the wind, or freshly cut and dead.

The combination of Dunham and Olen, each of which sees the other as “probably the best tree painter in the world,” offers countless philosophical, theological, sociological, environmental, and, of course, artistic and historical views based on the subject of wood.