1910
Pic Adrian is born on 3 September in Moinesti, Romania. This Moldavian town was also the birthplace, fourteen years previously, of Tristan Tzara, whose family used to visit the Adrian family.
1915
The Adrian family moves to Bucharest, where he attends primary and secondary schools, subsequently going on to study Law at Bucharest University. After graduating he practices as a lawyer for several years and also takes up poetry and painting.
1928
He publishes his first poems.
1932
Travels to Paris and Italy, indefatigably visiting museums and art galleries.
1940-44 Wartime in Romania under nazi rule
1952
He marries Alice, who had studied music at the Bucharest Conservatoire (and would later study sociology in Barcelona).
1953
Travels to Venice to meet Marc Chagall. Later, in Paris, he meets Léger, Arp and Brancusi. Frequent visits to Brancusi's studio in the Impasse Ronsin and numerous conversations with him.
Moves to Barcelona but often goes to Paris. "I am only an hour away by plane or a night by train." His painting is figurative, though aiming for simplification of forms. (Les personnages; La mère; Le chat; La femme-mer).
1955
Publication of his essay Réflexions sur l'univers sonora, in which he studies musical sounds in relation to light and colour.
Conversations with the physicist Albert Schweitzer in Gunsbach, Alsace.
1958
Birth of his daughter Mònica. He meets Antoine Pevsner and writes an article on his work. This year marks the transition from his figurative period to abstract art.
1960
Introduces the sentient line in his paintings and produces a series of reliefs in wood on canvas.
1962
Exhibits 28 oil paintings and various reliefs at Galeria Syra, Barcelona.
1963
Takes part in the group exhibition Pintores extranjeros at the Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona.
Exhibits at the Galerie de France, Paris
1964
Takes part in the VIII Salón de Mayo, Barcelona.
Exhibits 30 works, including several large-scale pieces, at Galería Neblí, Madrid.
1965
Solo exhibition at Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris.
Publishes Du Réalisme Naturaliste au Réalisme Essentialiste (Arted, Paris).
Meets Lucio Fontana in Milan.
1966
Organises the first Tendencia Esencialista group exhibiton a the Institute of North-American Studies in Barcelona, exemplifying his theories with works by Faber, Hernández Pijuan, Tharrats and some of his own pieces.
1967
Group exhibition at the Maison de Culture, La Havre.
Takes part in the Comparaisons Salon at the Musée d'Art Modern de la Ville de Paris.
Takes part in the Neue Malerei aus Paris exhibition, Schwäbisch Gmünd Museum.
Takes part in the Vingt peintres exhibition, which remains open throughout the summer at the Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, with Michaux, Sam Francis, Matthieu and Dubuffet, amongst others.
Solo exhibtion at Ateneo, Madrid.
1969
Takes part in the international group exhibition at Galeria Refugi d'Art, Barcelona.
Organises the second Tendencia Esencialista group exhibiton in Madrid, with over 50 works by 10 artists.
Exhibits his Synchronicité series at Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris, presented by Pierre Restany.
1970
Takes part in the Exposición Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid.
Solo exhibition at Galeria Ivan Spence, Ibiza.
Publishes a series of 10 screenprints in Turin, entitled 10 condizione lineari di segnaletica aleatoria, with text and poem by Carlo Belloli.
Tha Catalan composer J. M. Mestres Quadreny writes Variaciones essencisals, a musical composition inspired by Adrian's paintings, particularly the Synchronicité series.
1971
Takes part in the Forma y Poema Salon at the Institute of North-American Studies, Barcelona, in which each artist shows a picture related to a particular poem.
Publication of his treatise Essentialisme et Pop dans l'Art Actuel.
Publishes a folder with five screenprints and a text titled Sincronías.
1972
Solo exhibition at Galerie Montjoie, Brussels.
Group exhibition to commemorate the Bertrand Russell centenary at Rotunda Gallery, London.
1973
Publishes his Art Principiel manifesto to complete his Essentialist theory.
Exhibits the first examples of Principle Art at the French Institue, Barcelona.
Exhibits at Galerie Suzanne Egloff, Basel.
1974
Starts working on a series of reliefs in wood on canvas.
Solo exhibition at galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris.
Solo exhibition at Galleria Vismara, Milan, presented by Gillo Dorfles.
Starts working on the Agua primaria series.
Solo exhibition at Galeria Ovidio, Madrid
1975/76
The Oxford magazine Leonardo an article on his work.
His L'Entité Art-Actuel is published by Arted, Paris
Publication of the Spanish and English editions of Art Principiel.
1977
Publication of a monograph by Pierre Restany (Le Musée de Poche).
1978
Publication of his treatise Le Continuum terrestre humain (La Pensée Universelle, Paris).
Solo exhibition at Galerie Suzanne Egloff, Basel.
Solo exhibition at Galerie Henry Meyer, Lausanne.
1979
Solo exhibition at Fundació Miró, Barcelona.
Travels to New York, where he meets a numebr of Conceptual artists.
1980
Publishes the Segundo Manifiesto del Arte Pricipial.
1981
Solo exhibition at Galeria Ciento, Barcelona.
Takes part in the group exhibition Libros de artista, Galeria Metrònom, Barcelona.
Travels to Berkeley, California.
1982
Starts working on a series of reliefs in painted wood.
Publishes Occident-Orient, second book of Principle Art.
Spends Spring in the United States.
Takes part in the Libros de artista group exhibition organised by the Ministerio de Cuktura at the Sala Picasso, Madrid.
1983
Solo exhibition at the Henie-Onstad Art Center, Havikodden (Norway).
Spends Spring in the United States.
1985
Solo exhibition at Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart.
Takes part in the group exhibition Die Musik in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
1987
Solo exhibition at Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv.
1991
Solo exhibition at Galeria Artual, Barcelona.
Features in the permament collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1993
Anthological exhibition Pic Adrian, organised by the Generalitat de Catalunya at the Salas BBV, Barcelona.
1994
Solo exhibtion at IVAM, Valencia.
1997
Takes part in the group exhibition Pintura dels Setanta, superficie/color, MACBA, Barcelona
2009
Takes part in the group exhibition Temps com a matèria, MACBA, Barcelona and Museo de Belles Artes, Granada.
2011
Group show La sombra del habla. Obras de la col·lecció MACBA, Seoul Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.
2012
Group show Abstracción y movimiento, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla
2015
Solo exhibition Art Principiel, l'Essèncialisme de Pic Adrian, Sala d'Exposicions La Caixa, Santa Cristina d'Aro, organised by Richard van der AA.
Group Show Second Beginning 1950-1977, MNAC, Barcelona.
2017
Solo exhibition Pic Adrian Art Principial, Galeria Marlborough, Barcelona
2019
Group show Abstracte, figuratiu, etcètera, GALERIA RICHARD VANDERAA, Girona.
2021
Group show l'Art del descobriment. Segones Avantguardes, GALERIA RICHARD VANDERAA, Girona.
2022
Group show Tardor/Fall 2022, GALERIA RICHARD VANDERAA, Cadaqués.
Solo exhibition Galerie Zlotowski, Paris
Pic Adrian Universo sonoro, Fundación Cristino de Vera, Sant Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife.
COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris
Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia
Fondation for Constructivist and Concrete Art, Zurich
Henie-Onstad Artcenter, Oslo
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Musée de Peintre et Sculpture, Grenoble
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla
Museo de Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro
Museo de Bellas Artes, Granada
Museu Victor Balaguer, Vilanova i la Geltrú
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
New York University Art Collection, New York
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Victoria & Albert Museum, London