ARTIST

Manuchar

MANUCHAR OKROSTSVARIDZE

GEORGIA

ARTIST STATEMENT

Content Unavailable, 2016

Mixed media (glass, plastic transparent strings, paint)

150x100x40 cm

Property of the artist

Courtesy DEDICACE GALLERY

Curator Khatuna Khabuliani

“Content Unavailable is an installation offering illusory space of a synthetic garden filled with images of conditional information. The artist transforms the space into a comfortable and meditative dimension referring to the history of abstract paintings.”

Khatuna Khabuliani , art critic, curator

BIOGRAPHY

1974 born in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Selected exhibitions :

2017 “Content Unavailable”. “Dedicace Gallery”, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2017 Rustavi City International Sculpture Symposium.

Rustavi, Georgia.

2017 “Spying Future” – Klaipeda Cultural Communication

Center. Klaipeda, Lithuania.

2016 “Spying Future” – National Scientific Library. Tbilisi, Georgia.

2016 Art Festival “ARTRA” – Ambrolauri, Georgia.

2016 Green”. – Georgian National Art Gallery. Tbilisi

2016 “Spice Up”(solo exhibition). – Institute fur Alles Mogliche,

Berlin, Germany.

2015 “Back Side of a Mirror”(solo exhibition)

Tbilisi History Museum.

2014 “Plastic Idols” – Writers House of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2013 “Moon Museum” – National Art Gallery. Tbilisi.

2013 Artisterium– 6th Tbilisi International

Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events.

2013 “Ideographic Objects” – Writers’ House of Georgia.

2013 “For John Cage at 100” – National Art Gallery. Tbilisi.

2013 “Hyperposition” (in cooperation with Konstantin

Mindadze) – Georgian State Museum of Arts.

2012 Artisterium – 5th Tbilisi International Contemporary

Art Exhibition and Art Events.

2012 “Existere”(Solo exhibition) – Gallery “Academy+”,Tbilisi.

2011 “Makulatura”(Wasted Paper) – Tbilisi Doll Museum, Tbilisi,

Georgia.(Drawings) (curator and participant),

2011 “Body & Soul” – Gallery “9”, Tbilisi, Georgia. (Drawing)

(Group exhibition)

2010 Duo exhibition with Tatia Darchiashvili – “Gallery 9”

Tbilisi, Georgia.

2009 “Cloisonne Enamel from the Land of Golden Fleece”,

UN office, New York, USA

2007 “Cloisonne Enamel from the Land of Golden Fleece”,

Madrid, Spain

2007 “Cloisonne enamel from the Land of Golden Fleece”,

office of European Council, Strasburg.

2006 “New generation in Georgian contemporary arts”,

gallery “Kopala”, Tbilisi, Georgia

2006 International biennale of enamel art – “New Wave”,

“Chardin Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2005 “Chardin” Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.(Duo exhibition)

2005 Museum-Gallery of Exclusive Porcelain, Moscow, Russia.

(Duo exhibition)

2004 International biennale of enamel art “New Wave”,

Gallery “Chardin”, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2002 “Contemporary Georgian Exlibris”, Museum of Literature,

Tbilisi, Georgia

2002 Exhibition of young graphic artists (Drawings),

gallery “N”, Tbilisi, Georgia

2000 Exhibition dedicated to the 175th year anniversary

of Impressionism, “Old gallery”, Tbilisi, Georgia.

WORKS