Revisiting his enduring interest in portraiture through a group of figurative works, the artist records the impact of the Digital Era on the human condition and its physiological effects on the body.

I’ve tried to create figurative painting, but using the building blocks of abstraction [...] The reasons why I’m a figurative artist and I’m not really abstract are more emotional and are to do with how I relate myself to traditional figurative painting. —Adrian Ghenie

The Fear of NOW is an exhibition of new oil paintings and charcoal drawings by Romanian-born, Berlin-based artist Adrian Ghenie. He fuses the profoundly personal with the art historical, bridging the abstract and the figurative to examine the impact of the Digital Age on the human condition.