Adrian Ghenie:

Pie-fights and Pathos

Adrian Ghenie: Pie-fights and Pathos presented a selection of work by the Romanian painter. Ghenie draws from Old Masters paintings, the history of cinema, and political extremism to create work that dwells on the dark underside of modernism. His paintings highlight forgotten episodes of history, shifting between abstraction and figuration. Like a memory, his work moves between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between the two. For this exhibition, Ghenie presented a new series of works alongside examples of earlier projects, offering a comprehensive review of the artist’s oeuvre, much of which has never been shown in this country.

Adrian Ghenie was born in 1977 in Baia Mare, Romania. He graduated from the University of Art and Design, Cluj, Romania in 2001. His work has been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kuns, Ghent; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice; Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, among others. In 2015, he represented Romania at the Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Berling and Cluj, Romania.