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Adrian Ghenie @ Ropac

PHOTOGRAPHY /

© 2018
Adrian Ghenie

Courtesy of
The Artist
&
Galerie
Thaddaeus
Ropac

Installation &
individual views,
Charles Duprat

Adrian's portrait,
Alessandra D’Urso

CREDITS /

May 29, 2018 

2-TIMES  Art
Adrian Ghenie,
Jungles in Paris
@ Galerie
Thaddaeus Ropac
— 

It is never the
motif that interests
me but always
the texture of my
subjects and how
the transformation
of this texture over
time can tell a
secret narrative...
 

The exhibition: 
Is the Romanian-
born, Berlin-based 
Ghenie's second 
solo with Ropac, 
featuring a new body
of works produced
by the artist across 
a trio of mediums, 
including paintings, 
collages on paper, 
and a group of
large-scale grisaille
charcoal drawings. 

Title reference: 
Jungles in Paris’ 
was borrowed from
the Henri Rousseau
exhibition at Tate
Modern in 2005-06, 
intending to signify
the visual tension
created by the
juxtaposition of two
seemingly disparate
environments—the
sophisticated urban
Paris versus the exotic
wild untethered jungle. 

2-TIMES' highlights: 

· Bikini, 2018 
· A zebra attacked by
a Lion, 2018
 

On view at: 
Galerie Thaddaeus
Ropac (Marais)
 

7 Rue Debelleyme,
75003 Paris, France. 

Closes: 
June 16, 2018.