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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

Archive of Academic Writings

2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

Mziuri

Object

Nino Sekhniashvili

relief on MDF, nitro color
2013
137x137 cm.

In the last years, the facades and mosaics from Soviet times are successively getting removed and destroyed. In my artistic research on the monumental decorative art of architectural facades, I am studying those images and reinterpret them by copying them on cheap material, as for example MDF-boards. Out of the context of place, time and their background, they are viewable in a different way.