ARTIST

Apkhazi

ZURA APKHAZI

GEORGIA

ARTIST STATEMENT

History, 2018

500×300 mixed media

Property of the artist

Courtesy DEDICACE GALLERY

Curator Khatuna Khabuliani

“Works by Zura Apkhazashvili (Apkhazi) reflect his special style of living, as he is a kind of outsider who took up his residence near the famous architectural historical complex in Georgia – Uplistsikhe and his works vividly reveal inspiration from archaic artistic visions developed in the subject of time & space relations through an abstract dimension. History connected with landscape is major topic for his series represented through big scale canvases/curtains.”

Khatuna Khabuliani, art critic, curator

BIOGRAPHY

1968 born in Gori, Georgia

Exhibitions

1996 Central House of Arts Moscow, Russia

1998 Contemporary Arts Gallery, Tbilisi

1999 Solo Exhibition “7 Day” (GI-)

Gallery of Georgia-Italian Society, Tbilisi

2001 Solo Exhibition “Compressed Space” GI-Gallery, Tbilisi

2002 Solo exhibition “black and white Silhouette” Gi gallery

2002 “Negatives are lost” State Museum of Literature Gallery,

Tbilisi

2003 National Art Gallery, Tbilisi

2003 Goethe-Institute Project, Tbilisi

2004 “Dinner for Everybody: “Karvasla” History State Museum,

Tbilisi

2004 “Tsingi”, State University Library, Tbilisi

2004 “Medea, Kolhis, Argonauts”- Project group Exhibition,

Tbilisi

2005 Art Caucasus “Second body” group project, GTS-Hall,

Tbilisi

2008 “Meet pirosmani-2” exhibition,

History State Museum Karvasla, Tbilisi

2009 Solo Exhibition “black and white negatives”,

French culture Centre, Tbilisi

2010 Solo Exhibition, Gallery “Lisstros”, Berlin

2012 Contemporary Arts Gallery, Tbilisi

2012 “Georgia-Deutcher kulturverein Regenburg e.V”,

Regensburg

2012 “Georgia on my mind” state gallery “Alte Shule Adlershof”,

Berlin

2013 Solo Exhibiton, “ ARS MEDICINA”

“Museum of Medical History”, Tbilisi

2013 Group project “Kvali” , “Karvasla”

History State Museum, Tbilisi

2014 Solo Exhibition “Own LHC”, Gala Gallery, Tbilisi

2017 Solo Exhibition. “Black Box Records” Dédicace Gallery’s

project for Artisterium 10.

WORKS