Gagosian Gallery, Paris, is presenting Endless Summer, an exhibition of new paintings by Albert Oehlen.. The paintings explore the theme of the bather, a motif deeply embedded in French art history that captivated such artists as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, and Pablo Picasso. The bather has maintained a significant and diverse presence throughout the history of art, and in Endless Summer, Oehlen contributes to the tradition in characteristically expressive style. Presenting variations on a dark-haired female nude, he sometimes approaches, sometimes retreats from his ostensible subject, using it as a template for unbounded experimentation. While the woman’s shape is…