Considered by critics as well as art aficionados to be perhaps the best-known and most valuable contemporary Romanian artist internationally, Adrian Heni returns to auction in Romania with a large and expressive body of work. This is a complex “Self-portrait” of youth (made in 2003-2004), which is available at the “Artmark Auction of Postmodern and Contemporary Art”, including a charity sequence to award a scholarship to encourage the study of Romanian art”, an event that presents to the public more than 200 contemporary creations and which will take place on Tuesday, February 20, at 19:00 both at Palatul Cesianu-Racoviță and online on the Artmark Live platform.

The exceptional work in the auction, which starts at €50,000, represents one of his first known self-portraits and dates from what the artist described as a “strange period”, with many searches, when he emigrated to Austria and was young. on what to refuse painting. Hailing from Baia Mare, Adrien Geny has set new sales records in recent years. His painting Interior of Pie Wrestling 12, made in 2014, was recently awarded in May 2022 for €8,000,000 at an auction in Hong Kong. At profile events in Romania, his record of another composite self-portrait (2006-2009) was registered at Artmark in December 2019 for €150,000.

“Painting is the only medium in which you can express the intuitive nature of the world,” says Adrien Geny, an artist whose works can today be found in the world’s most important collections, such as the Center Pompidou (in Paris) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York ).

Artmark’s new event Casa A10 also brings together the most important Romanian postmodern artists, including a small collection of works by Marcel Janca, dating from different periods and executed in different techniques, from lithography to abstract oil paintings. . A complex artist, the creator of several artistic worlds, a bright avant-garde in Romania, the founder of universal Dadaism in Zurich, who divides himself between plastic, scenography and architecture (in France he worked as an architect for the reconstruction of buildings from the ruins of the First World War), he emigrates to Palestine out of conviction , where he is still celebrated as the founder of the modern Israeli school of painting. Two of these works, painted in the classical technique of oil on canvas in the manner of lyrical abstraction, are called “Composition with Masks and Drum” and “Abstract Composition” and are modestly estimated at €1,500-2,500.

The auction on February 20 also includes a charity part with 18 works, including “Caryatid” by Iryna Dragomir, a work that was part of the exhibition “Young Blood”, from Art Safari (Bucharest, 2019). With the money raised from the sale of lots marked with a red heart, A10 by Artmark provides a scholarship to encourage the study of Romanian art in a classical and accurate way, which consists in creating monographs on important Romanian artists who are widely appreciated. on the art market, but not sufficiently studied academically and documented in the specialized literature.

The works participating in the “Postmodern and Contemporary Art Auction” can already be found both on the website dedicated to the event and at the exhibition at Palatul Cesianu-Racoviță (CA Rosetti Street, No. 5), every day, from Monday to Sunday, from 10.00 to 20.00. Our entrance is always free, not only on #NichMuseiv!

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