Kote Jincharadze's installations are mostly complicated constructions, built with pedant calculations, in which every detail is conceptually meaningful independently as well as in the composition with other details. Everyone who is familiar with Kote JIncharadze’s art evaluated the newly presented “Amnesia” at Karvasla as something very different from the artist’s previous works. The installation was not overloaded with narrative developments of concepts; it was a refined and sharp space sculpture with the “pure” geometry and distinct specificity characteristic to classical minimalism. The installation was intended to be a research of psychological reactions evolving from existential problems. Space, divided into three basic segments, represented different conditions and processes; united by the theme of relations with information-what is kept in memory and what is forgotten, or how collective and individual memories differ from each other where sometimes memories of important histories unfairly disappear or totally forgotten fact paradoxically comes to the surface. A horizontal red-lit “pipe”, with groups of anonymous silhouettes, was the dominant part of the exposition-electing a note of tension, energy, and fatality. In front of it, a parallel line with newly grown grass and demonstration of a plant growing from a seed was defined with the passive rhythm of plant existence. The third part, behind the two lines: vertical box-shelves on the background of the wall represented the most rational side-an archive of subjects and events. Kote Jincharadze’s project was seriously though and calculated from every angle to a maximum usage of space which made the artworks transform the hall altogether.

Khatun Khabuliani

TBILISI OUT 2013