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ADRIAN GHENIE
KUNSTWERKE
Adrian Ghenie | Palazzo Cini Gallery | Venice | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | https://www.ropac.net/ | Palazzo Cini Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Adrian Ghenie titled ‚The Battle Between Carnival and Feast‘. The exhibition will be on view during the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale until 18 November 2019. ‚The Battle Between Carnival and Feast‘ presents recent paintings, a number painted specifically for this exhibition. On one hand they reflect the rich maritime history of the city with its many waterways, and on the other the conflict and turmoil caused by today’s geo-political issues. The theme of water unites these works, which are painted in an aqueous palette of deep-sea greens, vivid blues and shimmering greys. “Painting is still an extremely vital force, able to express the great complexity of our time, and in Ghenie’s work it is the medium for a powerful synthesis of contemporaneity, history, beauty and the grotesque,” comments Luca Massimo Barbero, Director of the Fondazione Cini Institute of Art History YouTube
Adrian Ghenie | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | https://www.ropac.net/ | Paris | Marais | 2015 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to announce its first solo exhibition of paintings by Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie. Born in Baia Mare Romania in 1977 and now living and working in Berlin, Adrian Ghenie is currently representing Romania in the 56th Venice Biennale. Brought up in post-Ceausescu Romania, Adrian Ghenie’s work often dwells on the darker moments of post-war European history and the personalities whose actions have defined its course. Collective and personal memories, film stills, images culled from the Internet and art historical references are cut out and fused to make up the fabric of his paintings. Adrian Ghenie speaks of “painting the texture of history” and it is his fascination in recapturing these lost textures that give rise to the artist’s extraordinarily expressive use of paint. Video by Nikolai Saoulski including a presentation of Adrian Ghenie’s work by art historian James Hall | YouTube
Mostra | Adrian Ghenie | Palazzo Cini Venezia | VeniceSkyline | Venezia | 18 aprile 2019 | Palazzo Cini | The battle between carnival and feast | In occasione dell’apertura della Galleria di Palazzo Cini, nel 2019 verrà proposta al pubblico una mostra di arte contemporanea dedicata all’artista Adrian Ghenie | YouTube
Romanian Pavilion — Adrian Ghenie :: Darwin’s Room
Christian Neagoe – YouTube
Adrian Ghenie represents Romania at the 56th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia (9 May – 22 November 2015). The Romanian Pavilion, curated by Mihai Pop, showcases Darwin’s Room, an exhibition of paintings by Adrian Ghenie organized across three rooms – according to the original interior architecture of the Pavilion (from 1938) – and comprises a specific theme for each of these rooms: The Tempest, The Portrait Gallery (Self-portrait as Charles Darwin), and The Dissonances of History. Expanding upon Darwin’s ‚laboratory‘, Ghenie proposes an interpretive path into the notion of survival. He reads into the theory of biological evolutionism and the ways it has been skewed to transform societies. He also draws upon other historical sources in his updating of this image (fundamental to our self-perception), ‚contaminating‘ it with a keen reflection on neoliberal competitiveness, extending across all areas and folds of social and affective life. Darwin’s studio broadens its scope and becomes an incubator where future ideas grow and develop. It is an interweaving of past and future histories that does not hold proof or speculation on species evolution, which neither distorts nor idealizes, but opens a path towards a reformulation of the social values that structure contemporary existence. To equal extents, this returns to an essential moment, when epistemological tables were turned, and uses Darwin’s scientific tabula rasa to project or inscribe a new image of our future. Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers. The exhibition is accompanied by Adrian Ghenie – Darwin’s Room, a book edited by Juerg Judin and Mihai Pop, and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. The Romanian edition will be published by Editura Humanitas. Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare) belongs to a generation that has demonstrated its ability to lucidly reflect upon the difficult and often traumatic underpinnings of local histories. The use of a nuanced examination of how the contemporary is shaped by memory and desire, convulsion and spectacle, plays a central part in his work. Ghenie is, alongside other remarkable representatives of the same artistic community, one of the founders of the Paintbrush Factory in Cluj, which brings together some of the most dynamic artistic initiatives in Romania. Previous solo exhibitions include: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga (2015); Golems, Pace Gallery, London (2014); On the Road to… Tarascon, Plan B, Berlin (2013, with Navid Nuur); Pie-Fights and Pathos, Museum for Contemporary Art, Denver (2012); S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent (2010); and The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2009). Previous group exhibitions include: I Will Go There, Take Me Home, MAC Belfast (2015); Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2012); Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2012); European Travellers: Art from Cluj Today, Kunsthalle Mücsarnok, Budapest (2012); The Crystal Hypothesis, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo (2010); and the Liverpool Biennial (2008). The artist lives and works in Cluj and Berlin. … A project initiated by the Paintbrush Factory in Cluj in partnership with Film ETC. Association in Bucharest, and organized by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Romanian Cultural Institute. With the support of: The National University of Arts, Bucharest; The University of Art and Design, Cluj; George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin; Editura Humanitas, Bucharest; Galerie Judin, Berlin; PACE Gallery, New York / London; Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp; Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles / Bucharest; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris / Salzburg; Plan B Foundation, Cluj; The Association of Contemporary Art Galleries in Romania; and The Friends of MNAC Association, Bucharest. Curator: Mihai Pop Exhibition Architect: Attila Kim Lead Project Coordinator: Corina Suteu Commissioner: Monica Morariu Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian Production of the exhibition and co-editor of the Pavilion’s publications: Juerg Judin Project Development Manager: Oana Radu Production Assistant: Mihaela Lutea Pavilion Staff Coordinator: Corina Bucea PR (Intl.): Jennifer Joy (Sutton PR) PR (Romania): Cristian Neagoe
VIDEO / FILM
Intervista a Adrian Ghenie
Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana -YouTube
WIKIPEDIA
ADRIAN GHENIE
KUNSTWERKE
Adrian Ghenie | Palazzo Cini Gallery | Venice | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | https://www.ropac.net/ | Palazzo Cini Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Adrian Ghenie titled ‚The Battle Between Carnival and Feast‘. The exhibition will be on view during the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale until 18 November 2019. ‚The Battle Between Carnival and Feast‘ presents recent paintings, a number painted specifically for this exhibition. On one hand they reflect the rich maritime history of the city with its many waterways, and on the other the conflict and turmoil caused by today’s geo-political issues. The theme of water unites these works, which are painted in an aqueous palette of deep-sea greens, vivid blues and shimmering greys. “Painting is still an extremely vital force, able to express the great complexity of our time, and in Ghenie’s work it is the medium for a powerful synthesis of contemporaneity, history, beauty and the grotesque,” comments Luca Massimo Barbero, Director of the Fondazione Cini Institute of Art History YouTube
Adrian Ghenie | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | https://www.ropac.net/ | Paris | Marais | 2015 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to announce its first solo exhibition of paintings by Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie. Born in Baia Mare Romania in 1977 and now living and working in Berlin, Adrian Ghenie is currently representing Romania in the 56th Venice Biennale. Brought up in post-Ceausescu Romania, Adrian Ghenie’s work often dwells on the darker moments of post-war European history and the personalities whose actions have defined its course. Collective and personal memories, film stills, images culled from the Internet and art historical references are cut out and fused to make up the fabric of his paintings. Adrian Ghenie speaks of “painting the texture of history” and it is his fascination in recapturing these lost textures that give rise to the artist’s extraordinarily expressive use of paint. Video by Nikolai Saoulski including a presentation of Adrian Ghenie’s work by art historian James Hall | YouTube
Mostra | Adrian Ghenie | Palazzo Cini Venezia | VeniceSkyline | Venezia | 18 aprile 2019 | Palazzo Cini | The battle between carnival and feast | In occasione dell’apertura della Galleria di Palazzo Cini, nel 2019 verrà proposta al pubblico una mostra di arte contemporanea dedicata all’artista Adrian Ghenie | YouTube
Romanian Pavilion — Adrian Ghenie :: Darwin’s Room
Christian Neagoe – YouTube
Adrian Ghenie represents Romania at the 56th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia (9 May – 22 November 2015). The Romanian Pavilion, curated by Mihai Pop, showcases Darwin’s Room, an exhibition of paintings by Adrian Ghenie organized across three rooms – according to the original interior architecture of the Pavilion (from 1938) – and comprises a specific theme for each of these rooms: The Tempest, The Portrait Gallery (Self-portrait as Charles Darwin), and The Dissonances of History. Expanding upon Darwin’s ‚laboratory‘, Ghenie proposes an interpretive path into the notion of survival. He reads into the theory of biological evolutionism and the ways it has been skewed to transform societies. He also draws upon other historical sources in his updating of this image (fundamental to our self-perception), ‚contaminating‘ it with a keen reflection on neoliberal competitiveness, extending across all areas and folds of social and affective life. Darwin’s studio broadens its scope and becomes an incubator where future ideas grow and develop. It is an interweaving of past and future histories that does not hold proof or speculation on species evolution, which neither distorts nor idealizes, but opens a path towards a reformulation of the social values that structure contemporary existence. To equal extents, this returns to an essential moment, when epistemological tables were turned, and uses Darwin’s scientific tabula rasa to project or inscribe a new image of our future. Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers. The exhibition is accompanied by Adrian Ghenie – Darwin’s Room, a book edited by Juerg Judin and Mihai Pop, and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. The Romanian edition will be published by Editura Humanitas. Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare) belongs to a generation that has demonstrated its ability to lucidly reflect upon the difficult and often traumatic underpinnings of local histories. The use of a nuanced examination of how the contemporary is shaped by memory and desire, convulsion and spectacle, plays a central part in his work. Ghenie is, alongside other remarkable representatives of the same artistic community, one of the founders of the Paintbrush Factory in Cluj, which brings together some of the most dynamic artistic initiatives in Romania. Previous solo exhibitions include: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga (2015); Golems, Pace Gallery, London (2014); On the Road to… Tarascon, Plan B, Berlin (2013, with Navid Nuur); Pie-Fights and Pathos, Museum for Contemporary Art, Denver (2012); S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent (2010); and The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2009). Previous group exhibitions include: I Will Go There, Take Me Home, MAC Belfast (2015); Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2012); Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2012); European Travellers: Art from Cluj Today, Kunsthalle Mücsarnok, Budapest (2012); The Crystal Hypothesis, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo (2010); and the Liverpool Biennial (2008). The artist lives and works in Cluj and Berlin. … A project initiated by the Paintbrush Factory in Cluj in partnership with Film ETC. Association in Bucharest, and organized by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Romanian Cultural Institute. With the support of: The National University of Arts, Bucharest; The University of Art and Design, Cluj; George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin; Editura Humanitas, Bucharest; Galerie Judin, Berlin; PACE Gallery, New York / London; Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp; Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles / Bucharest; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris / Salzburg; Plan B Foundation, Cluj; The Association of Contemporary Art Galleries in Romania; and The Friends of MNAC Association, Bucharest. Curator: Mihai Pop Exhibition Architect: Attila Kim Lead Project Coordinator: Corina Suteu Commissioner: Monica Morariu Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian Production of the exhibition and co-editor of the Pavilion’s publications: Juerg Judin Project Development Manager: Oana Radu Production Assistant: Mihaela Lutea Pavilion Staff Coordinator: Corina Bucea PR (Intl.): Jennifer Joy (Sutton PR) PR (Romania): Cristian Neagoe
VIDEO / FILM
Intervista a Adrian Ghenie
Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana -YouTube
WIKIPEDIA
ADRIAN GHENIE
KUNSTWERKE
Adrian Ghenie | Palazzo Cini Gallery | Venice | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | https://www.ropac.net/ | Palazzo Cini Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Adrian Ghenie titled ‚The Battle Between Carnival and Feast‘. The exhibition will be on view during the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale until 18 November 2019. ‚The Battle Between Carnival and Feast‘ presents recent paintings, a number painted specifically for this exhibition. On one hand they reflect the rich maritime history of the city with its many waterways, and on the other the conflict and turmoil caused by today’s geo-political issues. The theme of water unites these works, which are painted in an aqueous palette of deep-sea greens, vivid blues and shimmering greys. “Painting is still an extremely vital force, able to express the great complexity of our time, and in Ghenie’s work it is the medium for a powerful synthesis of contemporaneity, history, beauty and the grotesque,” comments Luca Massimo Barbero, Director of the Fondazione Cini Institute of Art History YouTube
Adrian Ghenie | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | https://www.ropac.net/ | Paris | Marais | 2015 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to announce its first solo exhibition of paintings by Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie. Born in Baia Mare Romania in 1977 and now living and working in Berlin, Adrian Ghenie is currently representing Romania in the 56th Venice Biennale. Brought up in post-Ceausescu Romania, Adrian Ghenie’s work often dwells on the darker moments of post-war European history and the personalities whose actions have defined its course. Collective and personal memories, film stills, images culled from the Internet and art historical references are cut out and fused to make up the fabric of his paintings. Adrian Ghenie speaks of “painting the texture of history” and it is his fascination in recapturing these lost textures that give rise to the artist’s extraordinarily expressive use of paint. Video by Nikolai Saoulski including a presentation of Adrian Ghenie’s work by art historian James Hall | YouTube
Mostra | Adrian Ghenie | Palazzo Cini Venezia | VeniceSkyline | Venezia | 18 aprile 2019 | Palazzo Cini | The battle between carnival and feast | In occasione dell’apertura della Galleria di Palazzo Cini, nel 2019 verrà proposta al pubblico una mostra di arte contemporanea dedicata all’artista Adrian Ghenie | YouTube
Romanian Pavilion — Adrian Ghenie :: Darwin’s Room
Christian Neagoe – YouTube
Adrian Ghenie represents Romania at the 56th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia (9 May – 22 November 2015). The Romanian Pavilion, curated by Mihai Pop, showcases Darwin’s Room, an exhibition of paintings by Adrian Ghenie organized across three rooms – according to the original interior architecture of the Pavilion (from 1938) – and comprises a specific theme for each of these rooms: The Tempest, The Portrait Gallery (Self-portrait as Charles Darwin), and The Dissonances of History. Expanding upon Darwin’s ‚laboratory‘, Ghenie proposes an interpretive path into the notion of survival. He reads into the theory of biological evolutionism and the ways it has been skewed to transform societies. He also draws upon other historical sources in his updating of this image (fundamental to our self-perception), ‚contaminating‘ it with a keen reflection on neoliberal competitiveness, extending across all areas and folds of social and affective life. Darwin’s studio broadens its scope and becomes an incubator where future ideas grow and develop. It is an interweaving of past and future histories that does not hold proof or speculation on species evolution, which neither distorts nor idealizes, but opens a path towards a reformulation of the social values that structure contemporary existence. To equal extents, this returns to an essential moment, when epistemological tables were turned, and uses Darwin’s scientific tabula rasa to project or inscribe a new image of our future. Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers. The exhibition is accompanied by Adrian Ghenie – Darwin’s Room, a book edited by Juerg Judin and Mihai Pop, and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. The Romanian edition will be published by Editura Humanitas. Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare) belongs to a generation that has demonstrated its ability to lucidly reflect upon the difficult and often traumatic underpinnings of local histories. The use of a nuanced examination of how the contemporary is shaped by memory and desire, convulsion and spectacle, plays a central part in his work. Ghenie is, alongside other remarkable representatives of the same artistic community, one of the founders of the Paintbrush Factory in Cluj, which brings together some of the most dynamic artistic initiatives in Romania. Previous solo exhibitions include: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga (2015); Golems, Pace Gallery, London (2014); On the Road to… Tarascon, Plan B, Berlin (2013, with Navid Nuur); Pie-Fights and Pathos, Museum for Contemporary Art, Denver (2012); S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent (2010); and The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2009). Previous group exhibitions include: I Will Go There, Take Me Home, MAC Belfast (2015); Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2012); Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2012); European Travellers: Art from Cluj Today, Kunsthalle Mücsarnok, Budapest (2012); The Crystal Hypothesis, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo (2010); and the Liverpool Biennial (2008). The artist lives and works in Cluj and Berlin. … A project initiated by the Paintbrush Factory in Cluj in partnership with Film ETC. Association in Bucharest, and organized by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Romanian Cultural Institute. With the support of: The National University of Arts, Bucharest; The University of Art and Design, Cluj; George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin; Editura Humanitas, Bucharest; Galerie Judin, Berlin; PACE Gallery, New York / London; Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp; Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles / Bucharest; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris / Salzburg; Plan B Foundation, Cluj; The Association of Contemporary Art Galleries in Romania; and The Friends of MNAC Association, Bucharest. Curator: Mihai Pop Exhibition Architect: Attila Kim Lead Project Coordinator: Corina Suteu Commissioner: Monica Morariu Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian Production of the exhibition and co-editor of the Pavilion’s publications: Juerg Judin Project Development Manager: Oana Radu Production Assistant: Mihaela Lutea Pavilion Staff Coordinator: Corina Bucea PR (Intl.): Jennifer Joy (Sutton PR) PR (Romania): Cristian Neagoe
VIDEO / FILM
Intervista a Adrian Ghenie
Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana -YouTube
