Adrian Ghenie: le travail de la figure
Adrian Ghenie: The Figure at Work

Summary/Abstract: How do images think? How do they engage with history? Adrian Ghenie’s artworks invite us to reflect on such questions in order to bring forward the fragility (but also the fecundity) of the various discourses and devices by means of which we make sense of the world. This paper aims at answering those questions by exploring the meaning and function of two notions at the very core of art history—namely, the “figure” and “figurative” painting—and by emphasizing their problematic status in Ghenie’s work. Thus, Darwin’s Room, the Romanian artist’s project for the 56th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2015, will be analyzed here from a figural perspective allowing the author to account for Ghenie’s work on and with the pictorial figure.

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