Artist Tezi Gabunia’s installation honoured by leading art magazine

Georgian contemporary artist Tezi Gabunia's project has been named among the best installations of 2016 by Designboom, the leading digital magazine of art and design.

The online magazine, promoted as "world's first and most popular" resource of its kind, revealed Gabunia's installation Put Your Head into Gallery as one of the top 10 works submitted by its readers during the year.

The shortlist of select 10 works was published on December 22 and included installations from artists like Paris-based creator Vincent Leroy, Danish motion designer Toke Blicher Moeller and Tokyo-based artist Hitomi Sato.

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The international magazine's selection followed the publication's feature on the project in May this year.

 Put Your Head into Gallery emphasizes the artist’s notion of the art world by triggering a dialogue about hyper-realistic issues in art," said the magazine in its reveal of the 10 best installations of 2016.

Gabunia's installation was launched as project in January 2016 and involved photographing participants' faces looking through miniature models of interiors of some of the most recognised international art galleries.

See how the project 'Put Your Head into Gallery' turned into reality in Tbilisi, Georgia below:

The replica designs were made after interiors of art spaces including the Saatchi Gallery in London and Louvre Museum in Paris.

Gabunia and his team hosted the launch event of the project in Tbilisi, where hundreds of visitors made it a highly popular occasion.

The project represented Gabunia's methodology of 'falsification', in which the Georgian artist "creates a reflection upon the basic features of the contemporary world", said Designboom.

The concept for Put Your Head into Gallery was created by Gabunia alongside Georgian artists Ucha Urushadze, Nika Maisuradze and Dato Tsanava.

The project involved photographing participants' faces in scale models of famous art galleries. Photo from Tezi Gabunia.

Tezi Gabunia has featured prominently in recent contemporary art projects and displays in Tbilisi.

Earlier this month, he was one of 12 local artists involved in Project 12, an exhibition of works created in visual art, installations, lighting design, photography, graffiti and street art and graphical design.

Gabunia also became one of the recipients of the Zurab Zhvania Tsinandali Award for Young Scientists and Artists, held in November this year to reveal some of the brightest young Georgians working in artistic and scientific professions.

Gabunia was among Georgian artists featured within the 'Project 12' display in Tbilisi. Photo from TBC Bank.

The artist was honoured with the Tsinandali Visual Arts Award in a ceremony held at Fabrika, a central Tbilisi venue hosting creative events and displays.

Designboom is an international magazine with a global audience of four million readers.

The publication was selected as one of the top 100 design influences by the TIME magazine in 2007.