Adrian Ghenie - Artforum
2013年7月16日 · In Adrian Ghenie’s paintings, drips and pours of paint, smeared surfaces, and indistinct masses make up his canvases, but figuration predominates in “Darkness for an Hour,” the Romanian painter’s first UK solo show. Depictions of Dada, and Duchamp in particular, appear like camouflaged figures rising out of wreckage.
Adrian Ghenie - Artforum
Adrian Ghenie, Dada Room, 2010, mixed media. Installation view. The absurdities and coincidences of childhood can shape your viewpoint for life. Growing up in Cluj, Romania, Adrian Ghenie was taught to worship the father of the state, Nicolae Ceauşescu.
Adrian Ghenie
In “Berlin Chronicle” (1932), Walter Benjamin equates the act of remembering with archaeology: Both involve digging to recover a buried past. The motifs favored by Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie are almost without exception oppressively hermetic interior spaces, subterranean realms whose architecture and contents are characterized by ...
ADRIAN GHENIE TO REPRESENT ROMANIA AT UPCOMING …
2015年2月3日 · Painter Adrian Ghenie will be representing Romania at the Fifty-sixth Venice Biennale, according to Artnews’ Andrew Russeth. The painter has been featured in solo shows at S.M.A.K. Ghent, the MCA D…
“Cluj Connection”
Ghenie is a painter whose pictures are mostly of dark, mysterious interior and exterior spaces and architecture, populated by shadowy silhouettes. By incorporating unusual perspectives and gradations of mainly gray and black tones, he evokes an uncanny and suspicious atmosphere; the somber compositions recall the visual language of film noir.
Art Advisor Lisa Schiff Sued for $2 Million
2023年5月15日 · According to the filing, Schiff, who was a longstanding friend of both Barasch and Grossman’s spouse, in 2021 shepherded the purchase by the three collectors of Adrian Ghenie’s 2019 painting The Uncle 3, with Barasch acquiring a 50 percent share and the Grossmans 25 percent each. Though Schiff charged the buyers for shipping and packing ...
ROUTINE OF THE REAL - Artforum
There’s a definite emotional depth in these paintings that is knowingly lacking in much of the post-photographic painting that has come out of Eastern Europe since the ’90s (e.g., that of Sławomir Elsner, Adrian Ghenie, Victor Man, Wilhelm Sasnal).
Adrian Morris - Artforum
Reviewing one of these in 1978, Adrian Searle tempered his praise of the artist’s “emphatically concrete” facture with a caveat about his subject matter, which, the critic worried, bordered dangerously close to a “stereotyped imagism,” one that could easily give way to clichés of alienation and melancholia.
ADRIAN FRUTIGER (1928–2015) - Artforum
2015年10月23日 · Adrian Frutiger, Univers signage at Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5, London, 2008. Photo: Akira Kobayashi. In the 1950s, Frutiger’s most famous work, the neogrotesque Univers, expanded the cosmos of strict modernist design. It was momentous—a typeface that seized on the potential of nascent phototypesetting technology.
ADRIAN FRUTIGER (1928–2015) - Artforum
2015年9月21日 · The Swiss graphic and typeface designer Adrian Frutiger has died, according to Margalit Fox reporting for the New York Times. Throughout Frutiger’s lively career, he created forty different fonts that were lauded for their ingenious engineering, style, and readability–appearing on signs in the Paris Métro as well as perhaps most iconically ...