Adrian Ghenie Exhibition in Salzburg: New Paintings and Drawings

This exhibition presents a new series of works by Adrian Ghenie, created following his relocation to Rome, which draw upon landscape painting as both subject and form. The collection reinterprets art-historical references through a distinctive painterly language, balancing pastoral idealism with contemporary unease.

In this significant body of work, Adrian Ghenie reimagines the genre of landscape painting from within, folding art-historical legacies—such as those of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, and Philip Guston—into his own distinctively tactile and deconstructed style. The works, created in the artist’s Rome studio, feature figures inhabiting the historic Appian Way, where ancient ruins collide with modern symbols like trainers, backpacks, and laptops. Ghenie uses these sharp, contemporary details as 'anchors' to bridge the gap between classical art history and the present day. The exhibition highlights Ghenie’s unique process of accumulation and erasure, a ritualistic approach that transforms painting into a form of archaeology. By incorporating elements of cluttered studio interiors and using a rich, earthy palette of olive greens and fleshy pinks, he creates compositions that are both psychologically charged and art-historically coded. Through this exploration, Ghenie probes the friction between the archaic and the contemporary, asserting the physical presence of the painted object against the flatness of the digital age.

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