Tbilisi display explores architecture through transformation with artists Nestan Abdushelishvili, Nanuka Zaalishvili
The exploration of architectural elements and objects via a prism of time will open for viewers this Saturday. Image via Gallery Nectar.
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Two angles on architectural contributions to transformation and reconstruction will explore the subject via a display at Tbilisi's Gallery Nectar starting this Saturday, with artists Nestan Abdushelishvili and Nanuka Zaalishvili featured.
The two creatives will bring their works within Element-Forgotten Feelings, a look at the subject rich with institutional and collective memory of the post-Soviet urban and social reality of Georgia.
In the exhibition - at the venue that has hosted individual displays in addition to co-hosting the Artisterium international exhibition - the artists will bring works resulting from their artistic practices centred around architectural objects through time.
Abdushelishvili will contribute with her Archive of Forgotten Feelings - her project centred around the theme of "formation of contemporary history" through architecture.
In her take on the subject of "a transitory period", photographs produced using 35mm camera lens over the period of two years introduce the exploration of the topic.
[These] [i]mages depict various buildings and its facades, without any physical protagonist showing unclear present reality of passing time" - preview from organisers
Zaalishvili, whose photographs of Soviet-era bus stops scattered along roads throughout Georgia have been exhibited at the Kolga Tbilisi Photo festival, will bring her artwork derived from a specific focus element.
The architect and artist has used the "Construction Element" - a "simple concrete detail that can be constructed in various forms" for her inspiration. The element was created by architect Giorgi Chakhava, whose post-constructivist building of the former Department for Automobile Roads is an iconic work of Soviet architecture in the Georgian capital.
A graduate of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Zaalishvili is a founder of the Idaaf Magazine of architecture and Idaaf Architects, a collective working on architecture, interior and conceptual furniture design.
Abdushelishvili has degrees from Madrid's Istituto Europeo di Design, University of Westminster and Campus Studio Tbilisi. Her work has included art guide editing for I Do magazine and curatorial contributions for Artarea Gallery in Tbilisi.
Element-Forgotten Feelings will be on show at Gallery Nectar, located at 89, Bochorishvili Street in Tbilisi, between February 8-March 21.
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