The Quiet Album
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 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]
Explaining further, the band's 2004 biography says 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 could only decipher Oehlen's signature and was likely unaware it was an 'album'.
Image gallery
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Edition 14 of 40. Signatures on the lid of the original 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