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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

Exhibition: Deep Calleth unto Deep

Painting

Gia Bugadze

2016

I am interested and I study the things, which are born at the collision of opposite things, while they enter each other and penetrate each other. I admire a ruin and a crack, as a reflection, a hieroglyph and a sign of nature and culture, created and born while inter-impregnation. I am attracted by the thing, that something hand-made (culture) has introduced in nature something, that is not hand-made (nature) has destroyed or made a vital mark upon it.

I explore and study in the passing forms the signs of coming true the passing forms as something enigmatic, inexplicable hieroglyphs, giving them the metaphoric and symbolic meanings. Therefore I like being on the edge in art; my like experiencing the edge, especially when I keep balance.

Balance on the edge - this is the principal orienteer of my artistic activity, during which the language of communication and shapes are absolutely unlimited. Therefore there does not exist any prohibition of the form, there is no censor either in me or beyond me, except open-heartedness, which is supported by great professional experience.