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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

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

Love Is with You

Graphics,Text

Zurab Arabidze

acrylic, oil on canvas
2016
150×150 cm.

Every person wants to love and to be loved with strong, true and sincere love. Find your part of love at the exhibition where you can collect feelings. Contemporary artist Zurab Arabidze fills his works with the most simple phrases. With the words, which we say to express our desire, love and warmth. Works are untitled. On canvas one and the same phrase is being repeated with mantras principle. Visitor must read each word of every work from the beginning till the end. Energy charge, which mantra creates, penetrates into different layers of persons unconsciousness and fills each cell with information. “I love you”, “come to me”, “I miss you”, “ I want to be with you” – repeated 100 or more, is some kind of meditation for visitors. This series of artworks are for everyone, who loves to hug, who considers that love is and always will be, for whom love breathes, for those who believe that love will come, if not today than tomorrow.