Adrian Ghenie / edited by Juerg Judin.

By:

Ghenie, Adrian, 1977- [artist.]

Contributor(s):

Judin, Juerg M [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2013.Description: 184 pagesISBN:

3775736743 (hbk.)
9783775736749 (hbk.)

Uniform titles:

Works. Selections

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.9498 GHE

Summary: Since the publication of his first monograph in 2009, Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie has established himself on both sides of the Atlantic as a preeminent painter of his generation, with his brutal canvases of faces slashed at, blurred, gnawed and erased. Ghenie intensifies the raw scream of Francis Bacon\'s paintings to an even greater pitch, revisiting the Holocaust and extending Bacon\'s idiom of existential horror vividly into the present. While Ghenie continues to explore the darker moments in European history, social and political abuses of power, as well as his personal history, his compositions have become conspicuously more complex over the years, as he has turned increasingly toward a brighter and more colourful palette, confidently shifting between figuration and abstraction. This book unites 80 of Ghenie\'s key works from the past four years.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	759.9498 GHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100560672

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Monograph on Romanian painter Adrian Ghenie featuring seventy key works from the last four years. While Ghenie continues to explore the darker moments of European history, his compositions have become conspicuously more complex over the years as he has turned increasingly toward a brighter and more colorful palette, masterfully shifting between graphicness and abstraction.

Since the publication of his first monograph in 2009, Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie has established himself on both sides of the Atlantic as a preeminent painter of his generation, with his brutal canvases of faces slashed at, blurred, gnawed and erased. Ghenie intensifies the raw scream of Francis Bacon\'s paintings to an even greater pitch, revisiting the Holocaust and extending Bacon\'s idiom of existential horror vividly into the present. While Ghenie continues to explore the darker moments in European history, social and political abuses of power, as well as his personal history, his compositions have become conspicuously more complex over the years, as he has turned increasingly toward a brighter and more colourful palette, confidently shifting between figuration and abstraction. This book unites 80 of Ghenie\'s key works from the past four years.