Aripile Destinului (Flügel des Schicksals). 2002.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed and dated in upper right. 29.8 x 45.8 cm (11.7 x 18 in).
Twice stamped in Romanian on the reverse. [AR].

• Ghenie's pictorial worlds are filled with notions of the unconscious and the unfathomable.
• The yellow glow from the depths of the picture's background lends the a mystical atmosphere to the scene of angels and a half-naked female body.
• Works by the artist can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Tate Modern, London, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Austria
Private collection Berlin.

"On one hand, I work on an image in an almost classical vein: composition, figuration, use of light. On the other hand, I do not refrain from resorting to all kinds of idioms, such as the surrealist principle of association or the abstract experiments which foreground texture and surface."
Adrian Ghenie, quoted from: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, online: www.ropac.net/de/artists/44-adrian-ghenie/