Adrian Ghenie and Angelus Novus
Adrian Ghenie and Angelus Novus

Summary/Abstract: Adrian Ghenie (1977) is one of the most distinguished painters of Contemporary Art. He represented Romania at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015) with project titled “Darwin’s Room” curated by Mihai Pop. His paintings display a baroque grandeur. His style shows intertextual and transpictorial creative strategies. The facts of Modern History in anachronistic sense, post-communist era of Romania and personal memory records are intertwined within his works. Gheni’s approach to history is reminiscent of Walter Benjamin’s Angelus Novus. Moreover as an artist he reveals an ‘Angelus Novus’ performance. He use both historical and actual mass communication perspectives. He appropriates styles of Velasquez, Géricault, Van Gogh, Rothko, Pollock and Bacon. Ghenie is an expressionist painter in an abstract and figurative sense. Sometime, the intensive use of colour, brush and the other painting tools embody qualia that provide the materialization of the historical and cultural meaning of his painting beyond his technical style. In this study, the subject described above is analyzed using a descriptive method.

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