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John Corbett is a curator and writer based in Chicago. He is the co-owner of Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, author of Extended Play (1994), Microgroove: Forays into Other Music (2015), and Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium (2017), and he produces CDs for Corbett vs. Dempsey's label. Martin Prinzhorn is a linguist at the University of Vienna and an art critic who regularly publishes essays in art books and magazines. Among many others, he has written on Georg Baselitz, Angela Bulloch, Lecia Dole-Recio, Will Fowler, Sarah Lucas, and Martin Kippenberger. Alexander Klar is an art historian and director of the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Wiesbaden. He has written the books Neue Freiheit: Abstraktion nach 1945 (2010), Rui Inacio: True Images (2010), and Albert Oehlen: Die 5000 Finger von Dr. OE (2014), and has edited numerous exhibition catalogs. Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor specializing in contemporary art and photography. His TASCHEN publications include Collector's Editions like Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Ai Weiwei, and the David Hockney SUMO A Bigger Book, as well as monographs like the XXL-sized Jean-Michel Basquiat and survey books such as Modern Art and Art Now! Vols 3 and 4. Albert Oehlen was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1954. After graduating from the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978, he came to prominence in the early 1980s, and has exhibited internationally. Influenced by Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, Oehlen's work focuses on the process of painting, exposing its structural elements. He lives in Switzerland.