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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."<ref>Drag City Red Krayola biography, 2004</ref> | 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."<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> | 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> The seller could not read Thompson and Büttner's signatures was likely unaware that it was an 'album'. | ||
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Revision as of 23:40, 1 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 it was "described by Thompson as a picture of the band [...] printed onto parachute silk. There was no album per se."[1]
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."[2]
On October 30, 2021 a banner matching the description above auctioned for €2,400.[3] The seller could not read Thompson and Büttner's signatures was likely unaware that 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
- ↑ 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