16.7.13

Tamara Kvesitadze at Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin


"From 25 May until 10 August, Galerie Kornfeld will show Tamara Kvesitadze (b 1968) for the first time in Germany. The exhibition RED is a new group of works that was uniquely developed for presentation in Berlin. Tamara Kvesitadze counts among the most important Georgian artists of the present day. After her work was shown in a group exhibition at the Georgian pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, Tamara Kvesitadze had the honor of representing Georgia with a highly successful solo exhibition at the 2011 Biennale. Tamara Kvesitadze’s work includes kinetic sculptures and paintings, wherein the human being plays an essential role. The tension in the relationship between genders is a main focus of her œuvre. Its roots lie in antiquity and mythology as well as in surrealism. Violence and sexuality are intertwined. Faces, masks and fragmented bodies symbolize the internal conflict of modern individuals, their emotions, their strive for happiness and fulfillment, their fears and hopes. Questions about individuality are raised, and the relationships between the individual and society and fellow humans are examined.
Movement is an important feature in Tamara Kvesitadze’s sculptures. During the 1980s she studied architecture at the Georgian Technical University in Tbilisi, and soon began to create works that successfully combined art and construction.
Yet her primary concern was not the representation of movement using the resources of contemporary sculpture; her interest in movement is far more comprehensive. “I was always interested in Greek philosophy and especially the
aphorisms of Heraclitus,” she says. “According to him, everything is in flux and one can never enter the same river twice, as it is in constant motion. Given that sculpture is not typically linked to movement, I became more and more interested inexperimenting with this idea in my practice." Tilman Treusch, Galerie Kornfeld

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