Yes!  We finally made it, in the final day, to Adrian Ghenie exhibition.  C.A.C. (Centro de Arte Contemporaneo) in Malaga hosted for three months the work of this young and very talented Romanian painter and of course we wouldn’t miss it for the world. I am not an art critic and I’m not specialized in analyzing and interpreting art but Adrian Ghenie‘s  understanding of history with explosion of lines and colors enchanted my eyes. The artist’s interpretation of some well known characters who influenced the history and the world is intriguing and powerful in the same time. The deformed portraits and overlapping features of Van Gogh, Hitler and Ceausescu are unmistakable and easy recognizable, with Adrian Ghenie‘s geniality drawing a  fine line between reality and fiction. With palette knives and stencils, the talented painter brings us into the world of realism interlaced with imagination. 

Born 37 years ago in Romania  Adrian Ghenie belongs to a new uprising group of Eastern European young artists who are taking the Western art world by storm. His paintings have been featured in many art galleries and museums: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Tate Liverpool, to name just very few. He is also the co-founder of a ground breaking art gallery in Cluj Napoca called “Plan B“.  Acording to artnet.com  in 2014, the young artist became the best-selling young contemporary artist in the world. His highest valued painting “The Fake Rothko”, was sold for GBP 1.42 million (some USD 2.43 million) at an auction organised by Sotheby’s in London. The painting had an estimated price of some USD 600,000.

Contemporary art lovers must not miss the C.A.C. (Centro de Arte Contemporaneo), in Malaga. A former whole sale market, today is the foremost cutting-edge art space in Andalucia.

              C.A.C. Centro de Arte Contemporaneo