Adrian Ghenie. The Brave New World

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Pace is pleased to present The Brave New World, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Adrian Ghenie, at its 510 West 25th Street gallery in New York.

The works in the show—on view from November 10 to December 22—examine the constantly evolving relationship between the human body and technology, meditating on the ways that digital devices and fugitive images have fundamentally altered our everyday existence and experience of the world. This presentation will also pose questions about the uses of painting itself, exploring how the medium can articulate the effects of the radical technological advancements of the past 20 years.

Widely considered one of the most dynamic and versatile painters of his generation, Ghenie has reinvented his style time and again. Best known for lush renderings of figures in layered, cinematic compositions that mine visual, political, and social histories—in particular those of Central Europe and his native Romania—the artist has often examined the conditions of contemporary life by turning his focus to a particular genre, era, or subject in developing new bodies of work.