Ungureanu�s practice explores ideas of power, politics and history. In the painting �Industrial Ruins� (2008) we are presented with an image created from a minimal colour palette. The circular work is composed primarily of two sections, with a formal separating of the sky from the land. The aerial perspective gives a bird�s eye view of the industrial complex. We are given visual access to the principal architectural structures but are denied the details of its design and function, because of our distance from it. The site�s layout is reminiscent of photographic images of the remains and deteriorating ruins of an ancient civilisation. The work serves to some extent as a historical document of an industrial age, but how this edifice came to be there, and why this site is now left to deteriorate, is left to the imagination.
