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Adrian Ghenie

b. 1977 Baia Mare, Maramureș

Globally acclaimed painter of history's ghosts in smeared, cinematic paint.

Ghenie studied in Cluj and co-founded Galeria Plan B. His dramatic canvases, built with palette knives and transfers, revisit 20th-century history — Hitler, Darwin, Van Gogh, Duchamp — as dreamlike, damaged memories. He represented Romania at the 2015 Venice Biennale with 'Darwin's Room'.

Notable works

№ 01
Nickelodeon
No freely-licensed image
№ 01 · 2008
Nickelodeon
Oil and acrylic on canvas
№ 02
Pie Fight Study
No freely-licensed image
№ 02 · 2008
Pie Fight Study
Oil on canvas
№ 03
The Sunflowers in 1937
No freely-licensed image
№ 03 · 2014
The Sunflowers in 1937
Oil on canvas
№ 04
Darwin's Room
No freely-licensed image
№ 04 · 2015
Darwin's Room
Installation
Romanian Pavilion, Venice

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