Fragmented portrait...
10:38 a.m.
A painting is still that vital force able to express the terrible complexity of our time; it's the perfect vehicle for the most powerful summary of our contemporaneity, our history, its beauty and its hideousness.
29/08/19 - The words above belong to Luca Massimo Barbero (Director of the Fondazione Cini) and are dedicated to the work of Adrian Ghenie (Romania, 1977), an artist that blends figures of our tumultuous present, whose actions produce profound historic changes, till they become blurry collages, even if we can still retain their main features. In the exhibition The Battle Between Carnival and Feast, at the Palazzo Cini in Venice, presents 9 paintings dedicated to one of the most relevant and bizarre politician of our time.
Untitled, by Adrian Ghenie (2019)
Technique: oil on canvas / Measures: 50 cm x 50 cm
Untitled, by Adrian Ghenie (2019)
Technique: oil on canvas / Measures: 45 cm x 45 cm
No sign or text throughout the gallery reveals the identity of the subject. It's not necessary. All the paintings have been manipulated and scrapped by the artist, as if wanting to create a pictorial palimpsest of this controversial character.
Selp-portrait with iPhone, by Adrian Ghenie (2018)
Technique: oil on canvas / Measures: 140 cm x 110 cm
Figure with dog,
Technique: oil on canvas / Measures: 240 cm x 210 cm
These fragmented paintings show us that we are the result of our own experiences. Although the image is blurry, we are able to compose the full image in our conscience.
From the artistic point of view, the furious, even grotesque, strokes maintain a very interesting aesthetic harmony.
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