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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Tradition and Information

From flora-kaukasus-2009

Kitsch vs Kitsch

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Sign vs Eternity

From flora-kaukasus-2009

Friday, June 26, 2009

Historic fugures


Next Time

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Niza


6-April2009 038, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Marx+Engels+Lenin+Stalin by Unknown in the Steppe

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Monday, June 22, 2009

Video: Jonathan Meese’s first major retrospective

..angry...kidz

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Nature and the Town

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Photo: Lela Meparishvili

Friday, June 19, 2009

Lado Pochkhua - Toy Camera (Paris, june 2009)





Style,Grace,Power

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Look at the details !

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists


German Readers go on here:
http://blog.handelsblatt.de/indiskretion/eintrag.php?id=2151

Old Propaganda sounds modern today ?

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Future is safe ! (from East Germany)

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Art Club Caucasus Poster

art-club-caucasus

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

" From Nantes to Paris" Niko Tskhetsladze new show at Cafe Pur Pur Tbilisi

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists


"From Nantes to Paris"
Niko Tskhetsladze
20.06.2009, 20.00 Club Restaurant "Pur Pur"


View Cafe Pur Pur in a larger map

Preparing for Paris ;-)

Mendelssohns' Exhibition התערוכה של מנדלסון

Meir gets blessed

ART: Tamar Chabashvili, Presentation of PSWAR Projects (archidrome.blogspot.com)

Invitation: 17 June, 19:00
Silk - Museum, Tsabadze Street 6

AFTER the presentation FilmScreening
Film by Alexander Kluge - Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed, 1968, 100’
German with Russian Subtitle

Special thanks to Goethe Institute in Georgia for distributing the film.

archidrome.blogspot.com/
geoair.blogspot.com/


Tuesday, June 16, 2009

by Meir Mendelssohn ;-))

The Love by Shoes Installation by Bessa+Laloseli

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

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From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

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June 16 ; 5:30 PM ; Georgia Literature Museum ;

‘Love By Shoes’

***

· During the regime of Saddam Hussein the family of a journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi was one of the subjects of a repression.

· The "libratory" movement initiated by George Bush overthrew the dictatorship.

· On the press conference held in 2008 as an expression of protest Muntadhar al-Zaidi took off his shoes, threw it to George Bush and named the president as a ‘dirty dog’.

***

- This is what kills me… – a guy lights up a cigarette - Give me a light!’

The bite…

- Why don’t you give up?

- What shall I do then?..

***

· According to the spread opinion, human is the part of a nature...

· In order to improve the living conditions, human constructed a factory and soon after acknowledged that he damages the ecosystem.

· In order to save the ecosystem, human constructed ecologically clear factory…

· The damage is partially decreased…

***

COCA COLA was an unembodied dream for Soviet space dwellers for years…

We queued up for Mc. Donald`s In independent Georgia for weeks...

The ‘magic red liquid’ is ‘the best cleaning mean for bathrooms’ and the ‘long wished Big Mac’ is ‘a straw full of pesticides’… - Declares the Post homosovieticus with the face full of pride and hatred…

The number of `Restaurant` Mc. Donald’s is increasing in the central districts of Tbilisi and remains as ‘the best place for arranging happy days for children’…

‘Love By Shoes’ – Adoring and ruining of the idols created by ourselves.

BY: BESSA &

LALOSELI

Sun Bath


Sun Bath, originally uploaded by grijsz.

by Hans Heiner Buhr

The secret meeting


Test Shot, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Dungeness Pearl


- After the storm.

Triptych - Oil on Linen

Monday, June 15, 2009

ART: Andro Wekua aus Georgien (saatchi-gallery.co.uk)

„Auf einem Podest sitzen zwei auffällig geschminkte Mädchen. Sie blicken gebannt auf ihr schwarzes Spiegelbild gegenüber. Gleichermassen im Kunstraum ausgesetzt und auf dem künstlerischen Möbel sorgsam gebettet, erregen sie unsere Aufmerksamkeit. Sie wirken fragil (wenn nicht verletzt) und dennoch bestimmt. Die Installation ist aus Ton gebrannt. Der Glanz der Glasur überzieht die ganze Figur wie eine Imprägnierung gegen die Aussenwelt, nur die Haare sind durchlässig. Als Besucher betritt man die Szenerie und wird augenblicklich mit einer gewissen Intimität konfrontiert. Wie nähert man sich dieser, ihrer Geschichte? Und welche Rolle hält man als betrachtender Akteur inne? Der Titel „Just Kidding“ entwaffnet den sorgenvollen Blick. Oder aber offenbart die Forderung nach einer unbeschwerten Kindheit und Aufrichtigkeit auf phonetischer Ebene (Just Kid).

Andro Wekuas Werk ist durchzogen von einer Form instrumentalisierter Fiktion. Eine spannungsreiche Stimmung bestimmt den künstlerischen Ort der Ausstellung. Die zahlreichen Mysterien sind Kalkül. Wir begegnen „Namenlosen Strassen“ oder „Mary“, einem Mädchen, das, offenbar als Flüchtling, in einem etwas herunter gekommenen Hotel wohnt, „wunderbar, wäre es gewesen.“ Wekua ist ein Meister der Andeutung, der feinen Geste. Seine narrativen Strukturen sind zielgenau und dennoch erstaunlich offen. Es werden Geschichten angedeutet, die im Kopf des Betrachters fertig erzählt werden, die Fantasie des Künstlers aufnehmend.

Einst in Georgien geboren und schon seit langem in Deutschland und der Schweiz lebend, ist Wekua gleichermassen mit der Lebensrealität hier, in der früheren Sowjetunion und im heutigen Georgien vertraut. Das sowjetische Georgien seiner Kindheit bleibt allerdings unerreichbar und begründet eine Art künstlerischen Mythos. Die Heimatstadt Sochumi, einst Feriendestination sowjetischer Funktionäre, malerischer Küstenort mit Zitronenbäumen, ist heute Sperrzone und bleibt auch daher ein Reservoir der Erinnerung: Das Haus der Grossmutter, das Schwarze Meer, politische Wirren, der Pingpong-Tisch hinter dem Haus, das monumentale Frachtschiff am Quai. Aus diesen Fragmenten konstituiert Wekua atmosphärische Bilder. Auf einer Zeichnung steht in krakeliger Schrift „I see“, ein bisschen weiter unten folgt der Zusatz „Black see“. Im Blindflug durchstreifen wir eine geografische und biografische Fiktion, die dem Künstler selbst bisweilen sehr nahe kommt. Geschickt siedelt Wekua seine gezeichneten, collagierten oder gefilmten Bilder im No man’s Land an – zwischen Westen und Osten, Ästhetik und Improvisation, Zuversicht und Trauer. Er konstituiert eigene, bildhafte Drehbücher, die mit seiner Vergangenheit spielen und diese gleichwohl zur Fiktion stilisieren.

Die Kunst von Andro Wekua ist auf sehr direkte Art und Weise „künstlerisch“ (jedoch nicht akademisch). Er begründet eine Form von Realität, die es ausserhalb dieses bestimmten Kontextes nicht gibt. Zu Hilfe kommen ihm dabei sowohl seine bildnerische Fantasie, als auch seine Gabe, auf visueller Ebene Fragilität zu konstituieren.“

Gianni Jetzer, Flash Art, No. 241, March 2005

also in english here >>>

Bildergallerie >>>


weitere links:

www.gladstonegallery.com
www.kunstaspekte.de
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
[PDF] Andro Wekua

www.nieves.ch/catalogue

Saturday, June 13, 2009

"Piknick" painting by Nugzari Natenadze


painting Nugzari Natenadze, originally uploaded by grijsz.

do you see the Wine and the Shashlyk ??

LOVE BY SHOES on 8th of June!!!

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists


So, dear Art clubers, on Tuesday, at 16th, me and Laloseli invite u on our 1 object show "LOVE BY SHOES".

It's about the phenomenous, how we r throwing shoes, and at the same time giving lourel wreath 2 someone (something ).

The show will be in the garden of the Georgian literature museum, same place where Hobby gallery is (down from Tbilisi Marriott), 8 Chanturia street. Doors will be opened at 5:30. As we don't have a sponsor, we made decision about brewering our own beer 4 the show, so let's see what will happen, as it's our 1st beer :D

see u there!!!

Friday, June 12, 2009

ART: Koka Ramishvili modulating the future - La Biennale di Venezia 2009 (labiennalechannel.org)

Koka (Akaki) Ramishvili represents Georgia at the Venice Biennale 2009. His installation is an audio/video work made up of two independent parts.
The work is titled Change in Drawing Orchestra: two independent works placed in two different rooms.



Koka (Akaki) Ramishvili represents Georgia at the Venice Biennale 2009. His installation is an audio/video work made up of two independent parts.

Source: www.labiennalechannel.org

Niza and Saskia

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Woman by Shohei


woman, originally uploaded by shohei ■.

acrylic painted on 51×72cm paper. by shohei ■
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoudondon/

Hungry for Ideas on Contemporary "Art" ?

Rough Trade – Power


and

Rough Trade – Reality


by

HENRI ART MAGAZINE

Thursday, June 11, 2009

A Dandy

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

van Gogh, Gauguin, Bernard, Fetting, Saskia and Niza - drawings by Nugzari Natenadze


van-gogh-natenadze, originally uploaded by grijsz.




saskia-drawing-natenadze, originally uploaded by grijsz.




Gauguin by-natenadze, originally uploaded by grijsz.




bernard-by-natenadze, originally uploaded by grijsz.




fetting2-by-natenadze, originally uploaded by grijsz.




niza-drawing-natenadze, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

ARTIST: Tamuna Sirbiladze is on the ART I 40 I Basel

Franz West - Galerie Gisela Capitain exhibition featuring Tamuna Sirbiladze

By Astrid Wege


Franz West's exhibition "Plakatentwurfe"(Poster designs) began with instructions from the artist: "As in my earlier PaBstucke," West states in a wall work directly next to the entrance, "the designs are not merely for reception but rather for interaction." At once both invitation and interpretation, his introduction marks a shift in emphasis.

The PaBstucke--amorphously suggestive hybrids between sculpture, prosthetics, and cult objects--shed light, by virtue of their various use-possibilities, on the relationship between art object and recipient; the "Poster Designs," 2000--works on paper, wood, and foam that refer to the current show as well as to past exhibitions by West and his friends--make reference more to the gallery space. They are intended to provoke a different relationship between artwork, exhibition space, and recipient--an agenda West shares with the various artistic endeavors to undermine or reconfigure the conventional white cube and the conditions of reception that it implies, but which he pursues with his own sense of irony.

The entry room showed, in West's words, two "examples of hanging methods": Organized in groups of three or four, in one case the works were hung from the top edge of the wall; in the adjoining room some were placed on the floor, leaning against a wall "specifically prepared for that purpose" by Georgian artist Tamuna Sirbiladze. The installation was completed with a circular seat-sculpture in the middle of the room. With its reference to the seating provided in nineteenth-century museums, and despite its ambivalent status between art-object and use-object, Puf functioned as a reminder of a contemplative approach to art and thus stood in counterpoint to the possibility of rearranging the works--an invitation the gallerist underscored by pointing out the gloves laid out for that purpose. Read the entire article here



Source: findarticles.com

BIOGRAPHY

1971
Born Tbilisi, Georgia
Lives and works in Vienna

Selected EXHIBITIONS
2007 Inconcurrence, galerie ColletPark, curated by Franz West, Paris
2006 Esperimento Illuminismo, Group show, Albertina Museum Vienna
2005 Camere/Chambers, Group show, Rum, Roma
The Red Thread, Educational Alliance Gallery, Group show, New York
Seconda, Biennale internationale d'arte di Ferrara, Group show, Ferrara
2004 Update, Kunstlerhaus, Vienne Museum of Modern Art, Group show, Passau
Le Opere I Giorni ,Certosa Di San Lorenzo, Padula, Group show, Salerno
2003 La-Bas, Nexus kunsthalle Saalfelden, Saalfelden , Austria curated by Smidt-Wulfen
Project 21 One day Show, Zwanzigerhaus, Vienna , Group show, Curated by Amer Abbas
Franz West and Friends, Collaborative Show by Act, London 2003
Junge Kunst, Gallery 442, Group show, Gmunden , Austria
2002 English Dictionary, Mac, Group show, Marseille
Parlez-vous français? Group show, Gallery Hohenlohe& Kalb , Vienne
2001 Point of View, Künstlerhauspassage, Group show, Vienna
Plakatenwürf, Gallery Gisela Capitain, Collaboration with Franz West, Cologne
Space Off, Supersaat Gallery, Group show, Vienna
Spiders, Gallery X, Vienne
2000 Juana e Juanita, Galleria Juana de Aizpuru,
Group show, Madrid
Cultural Sidewalk, Gumpendorf, Vienna, Group show, Curated by Heidulf Gerngross
1999 The Sun Will Rise, Old Gallery, Tbilisi
1997 Bricks and Kicks, Weather, Vienne

Tamuna Sirbiladze - Other Resources


artfacts.net
Additional information and images on Tamuna Sirbiladze


fortescueavenue.com
Tamuna Sirbiladze Exhibition


timevanlaere
Additional images on Tamuna Sirbiladze


bernier-eliades.gr
Additional images


evene.fr
Pour sa première exposition personnelle à Paris, à la galerie ColletPark, l'artiste géorgienne Tamuna Sirbiladze présente des installations vidéos, des tableaux de grand format et des dessins.



Tamuna Sirbiladze, Der Geist ist ein Knochen

Tamuna Sirbiladze, Immaginando terre condivise, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia, 2006 A Contemporary Art project by Zerynthia

It Has Never Happened, 2005
acrylic on canvas
190 x 150 cm.

Diabolic, 2006
acrylic on canvas
200 x 165 cm.

Dreamt – Shelfs With Transparent Dishes, 2005
acrylic on canvas
200 x 180 cm.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Hans with Moustache by Nugzari Natenadze

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

STOP WAITING GEORGIA, KARVASLA - NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM


STOP WAITING GEORGIA
TBILISI, GEORGIA, 12-19 June, 2009
KARVASLA - NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM

The exhibition opening on Friday , June 12, 2009 , 6:00 pm and run through June 19, 2009 at Tbilisi Historical Museum –Carvasla. 
( 8, Sioni Str. 0105 Tbilisi Georgia. Tel: 92 32 27) 


In august after aggressive actions of Russian military forces stressful and depressive condition and the nihilism is still strong in wide society of Georgia. 
The aim of the exhibition is actual art should transform vital images by its artistic-aesthetic concept, making a strong social impact, so as the notion of actuality obtains new sense, where any action of an artist is directed to involve psychologically and emotionally the Georgian society in the rehabilitation process of the country after war. 


Curators:

Alexandra Gabunia

and 

Nino Gujabidze

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:


Irina Gabiani

Tea Thelia

Sophia Cherkezishvili

Liza Osepashvili

Oleg Timchenko

Erna Dolmazova

Levan Kakabadze

Maka Batiashvili

Nino Biniashvili





Swoon by Walrus TV features

via Wooster Collective

13eme rencontre d’art contemporain.L’art contemporain de Géorgie




13eme rencontre d’art contemporain

L’art contemporain de Géorgie


 

Dans le Château Saint Auvent 

 

Limousin (Haute Vienne) 

France 

 

25 /07 – 30/08 2009

 

 

L’exposition géorgienne d’art contemporain se tiendra du 25/07 au 30/08 2009 dans le Château Saint Auvent en Limousin. Les artistes plasticiens, photographes et vidéastes vivant en Géorgie mais aussi a l’extérieur du pays, offrent au public une vision ouverte sur la Géorgie, sa population, ses créations, son patrimoine. C’est une nouvelle étape culturelle dans les échanges entre la France et de la Géorgie. 

 Cette exposition propose un dialogue entre les travaux récents des artistes contemporains géorgiens et le public français.

Plusieurs salles seront donc consacrées à la présentation d’œuvres récentes d’artistes contemporains.


Participants:


Europe & USA:


Vera Pagava, Vano Enoukidze, Kako Topuria, Zezva Artchemashvili, Belka Meskhishvili, Guela Patiashvili, Shalva Khakhanashvili, Luka Lazar(Lazareishvili), Irina Gabiani, Gogi Okropiridze, Zaza Papidze, Eteri Chkadua, Zura Sumbadze.

Tbilisi:

Lili Dadiani, Ani Riaboshenko, Iliko Zautashvili, Karaman Kutateladze, Archil Turmanidze, Beso Shonhardt.

 

Outre la présentation d’un large choix d’œuvres, l’objet de cette exposition « L’art contemporain de Géorgie » en 2009 est de mettre en lumière sur la création dans la capitale géorgienne et de rendre compte de la vitalité d’une tradition intellectuelle et artistique séculaire de la Géorgie.


Le programme du vernissage se tiendra durant deux jours. Le soir du 27 Juillet le public pourra découvrir les tableaux, les photographies et l’art vidéo. Le lendemain auront lieu des projections de films et une conférence permettant au public de débattre avec des organisateurs de l’exposition, des invités et des artistes présents. Il sera possible de discuter sur des questions d’actualité en Géorgie : la politique, l’art et la création, la culture et ses problématiques. 

L’exposition « L’art contemporain de Géorgie » est mise à disposition au château de Saint Auvent pour un mois et peut être présentée en différents lieux de la région. Cette exposition est organisée par le Caravansaraï – Echanges Artistiques, Paris & ses amis, en partenariat avec le château de Saint Auvent & avec aimable collaboration d’Annick et Pierre DEBIEN, avec l’aide de l’association Véra Pagava & Sololaki Wabstudio, et avec le soutien de l’ambassade de Géorgie en France. 

Commissaire de l’exposition : 

Shalva Khakhanashvili