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* According to his biography on AskArt.com, "Oehlen's Porsche [...] was permanently parked outside his studio because he never learned how to drive."<ref>https://www.askart.com/auction_records/Albert_Oehlen/108951/Albert_Oehlen.aspx</ref> | * According to his biography on AskArt.com, "Oehlen's Porsche [...] was permanently parked outside his studio because he never learned how to drive."<ref>https://www.askart.com/auction_records/Albert_Oehlen/108951/Albert_Oehlen.aspx</ref> | ||
* "The Quiet Album" is a pun on The Beatles' "White Album". Similarly in the early 2000s, with his brother Markus Oehlen | * "The Quiet Album" is a pun on The Beatles' "White Album". Similarly, in the early 2000s, with his brother Markus Oehlen he released two albums under the name Van Oehlen—a pun on Van Halen. | ||
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Revision as of 15:51, 2 November 2022
Dimensions: 148 x 400 cm. (58.3 x 157.5 in.)
The Quiet Album is a 1990 work by Albert Oehlen, Mayo Thompson, and Werner Büttner.
In 1995 German radio program Popalphabet listed The Quiet Album with the rest of The Red Crayola's discography[1]. Later that year American fanzine Puncture wrote that it was "described by Thompson as a picture of the band [...] printed onto parachute silk. There was no album per se."[2]
The band's 2004 biography explains that the album "comprised a banner showing a black and white reproduction of a photograph of [the group] life-size, singing with their faces pressed against the closed windows of Oehlen’s Porsche Targa parked in the snow in Hamburg. It was a limited edition, came in a white box modeled on The Beatles 'White Album,' and sold out immediately."[3]
On October 30, 2021 a banner matching the description above auctioned for €2,400.[4] The seller was apparently able only to decipher Oehlen's signature, and was likely unaware it was an "album."
Interpretations
- According to his biography on AskArt.com, "Oehlen's Porsche [...] was permanently parked outside his studio because he never learned how to drive."[5]
- "The Quiet Album" is a pun on The Beatles' "White Album". Similarly, in the early 2000s, with his brother Markus Oehlen he released two albums under the name Van Oehlen—a pun on Van Halen.
Image gallery
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Edition 14 of 40. Signatures on the lid of the original white box
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Albert Oehlen print dated 1989 with the same photo
- ↑ http://www.le-musterkoffer.de/alpha/thompson06.html
- ↑ Puncture no. 33, summer 1995
- ↑ Drag City Red Krayola biography, 2004
- ↑ https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/114445597_oehlen-albert-porsche-911-targa-f-modell-als
- ↑ https://www.askart.com/auction_records/Albert_Oehlen/108951/Albert_Oehlen.aspx