The Quiet Album: Difference between revisions

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1990 banner
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 it was "described by Thompson as a picture of the band [...] printed onto parachute silk. There was no album per se."^[1]

Drag City's 2004 biography of the band explained 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."^[2]

On October 30, 2021 a banner matching the description above auctioned for €2,400.^[3]

Image gallery

Edition 14 of 40. Signatures on the lid of the original box

Edition 14 of 40. Signatures on the lid of the original box
Albert Oehlen print dated 1989 with the same photo

↑ 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

[1] Puncture no. 33, summer 1995

[2] Drag City Red Krayola biography, 2004

[3] ttps://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/114445597_oehlen-albert-porsche-911-targa-f-modell-als

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 '''The Quiet Album''' is a 1990 work by [[Albert Oehlen]], [[Mayo Thompson]], and [[Werner Büttner]].
-The so-called 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."<ref>Drag City Red Krayola biography, 2004</ref>
+In 1995 it was "described by Thompson as a picture of the band [...] printed onto parachute silk. There was no album per se."<ref>Puncture no. 33, summer 1995</ref>
-It was "described by Thompson as a picture of the band [...] printed onto parachute silk. There was no album per se."<ref>Puncture no. 33, summer 1995</ref>
+[[Drag City]]'s 2004 biography of the band explained 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."<ref>Drag City Red Krayola biography, 2004</ref>
 On October 30, 2021 a banner matching the description above auctioned for €2,400.<ref>https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/114445597_oehlen-albert-porsche-911-targa-f-modell-als</ref>