136. The Knight of Death [2001]
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136. The Knight of Death [2001]
1977, Baia Mare
Estimate:
EUR 30.000 - 50.000
Sold
EUR 70.000
oil on cardboard, 34 x 44 cm, 34 Ã 44 cm, signed and dated bottom right, by layer scratching, "Ghenie, 2001"
Exhibited at the Sindan Cultural Centre, the current work is part of a series in which the artist sought to create a personal mythology, starting from the symbolist character of some key images: the snail, the angel, the wheelbarrow, the horse. The central symbol is an angel of death, an apocalyptic knight on a horse, creating a forced junction of the telluric with the divine, thus creating a subjective reality with values that are overturned or different from the everyday. The world reveals itself in a dark tenebrous manner, invaded by shells, strung together almost obsessively, and suggesting a petrified time, reminiscent of another era. The depicted world seems to be in a state of erosion by its own low values and inequities.
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