Dada is Dead 

Adrian Ghenie made this oil on canvas painting, Dada is Dead. Oil paint offers Ghenie a fluid medium to explore the tension between creation and destruction. Notice how the viscous nature of oil paint allows for layering, blending, and blurring, creating a sense of depth and ambiguity. The artist manipulates the medium to evoke a sense of decay and disintegration. Through brushwork, Ghenie captures the essence of a collapsing ideology. The surface shows the physical act of applying and removing paint, mirroring the chaotic energy of Dadaism itself. This work serves as an epitaph for a movement that challenged traditional artistic conventions. Through materiality and the active use of medium, we see how artists can use process to reflect on the end of movements, inviting us to question the boundaries between art and its historical context.