![]() ![]() The canvas is made up of two separate panels, seemingly juxtaposing reality and fantasy. ![]() They are all melting down, desperately scraping their faces away, or in halves, symbolic of fading identities. None of the characters’ faces are discernible. The techniques and layering of colors deliver an eloquent rendering of perspective and a sense of a dystopic world. It attracts the viewer with a sequential narrative, a left to right scan of the canvas being reminiscent of a movie scene. The painting was resold on auction at Christie's in 2016 for almost $9 million, establishing a record that still stands. In recent years, he chiefly investigated revolutionary figures from the nineteenth and twentieth century, such as Vincent van Gogh and Charles Darwin, using them as a point of departure rather than of inspiration.Īdrian Ghenie, Nickelodeon, oil, acrylic and tape on canvas, 238 x 414 cm, 2008, © Adrian Ghenie, Courtesy of Christie’sįollowing a rather chronological order, Ghenie’s progress seems to coincide with selling to high-caliber art collectors, such as François Pinault, who reportedly bought Nickelodeon in 2008 for €60,000. To conceive his artworks, Ghenie first draws inspiration from the past of art and history, then combines them with pivotal aspects of modernism on the painted surface. 2021 was his record year with a total of over $39 million, and in 2022 he has already sold art for close to $30 million, especially thanks to two recent sales which brought him new personal records as well: Degenerate Art, 2016, sold at Sotheby's on May 19 for $9.3 million, followed a week later by Christie’s Hong Kong sale of Pie Fight Interior 12, 2014, for $10.4 million.Īdrian Ghenie, Self-portrait ‘en plein air’, oil on canvas, 190 x 230 cm, 2020, © Adrian Ghenie, ![]() His ascent is supported by a well-established knowledge of art history and consistent research, producing a curious angle and concern with disruptive characters of the past.Īdrian Ghenie, The Impressionists, oil on canvas, 220 x 300 cm, 2020, © Adrian Ghenie, Courtesy of Pace Gallery, LondonĮspecially through his auction performance, Ghenie’s strong and fundamental trajectory can be followed over the last years. Growing in popularity, both on the primary and the secondary market, critics debate the reason behind his increasing stardom, not unprecedented but also not as anticipated. A multidisciplinary artist of many virtues, Adrian Ghenie, born in Baia Mare, Romania, and now based in Berlin, represents a former artistic education, which is being validated through the exponential growth of his career. ![]()
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