Photograph copyright Adrian
Ghenie –Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg - La Fondazione
Cini
La Galleria Palazzo Cini
Adrian Ghenie – The Battle between Carnival and Feast
The first solo
exhibition in Italy of works by Adrian Ghenie, The Battle between Carnival
and Feast, presented in dialogue with the rooms of the La Galleria Palazzo
Cini, are on show until November 18. Following major exhibitions in Europe and
the USA, and the artist's participation in the Venice Art Biennale in 2015
representing Romania, Ghenie exhibits a series of nine stunning paintings, some on show
for the first time, inspired by the history of Venice, but always linked to the
more controversial, darker issues of today’s world.
The Drowning - 2019
“The paintings of Adrian Ghenie break into
the arena of contemporary art as an unexpected, unstoppable, polymorphous presence.”
Luca Massimo Barbero
Adrian Ghenie - Figure with a Dog – 2019 – detail
Adrian Ghenie – The Wall – 2019
Pasquale Gagliardi
and Barbara Berlingeri
Adrian Ghenie – The Raft - 2019
Photograph
copyright – courtesy Manfredi Bellati
The Internet is undeniably a source of my practice. But that was only
natural. I don’t think we’ll get the better of it, no matter how hard we might
try. […] To a certain extent, any critical discussion is almost meaningless.
The Internet is here to stay; it has changed the world more profoundly than
many other things.”
Adrian Ghenie
Conversation with Mihai Pop
Adrian Ghenie Self-Portrait with iPhone – 2018
Self-Portrait with Animal Mask - 2018