Present
Giorgi Maghradze
Bread, Gold spray
2014
This work of art was created in 2013 and presents a bread painted with the gold spray. As an artist I responded to the very
recent events of Georgia where at the time of hard economic situation the governors (secular and religious ones) are making
luxurious gifts to each other. Strangely ìThe Presentî was exhibited at the exhibition of modern georgian conceptual art at the
expensive, luxuriously furnished Residence of former President of Georgia held with the initiative of Giorgi Margvelashvili, the
present president of the state. The residence building is also very close to ìSamebaî, the pompous cathedral of the georgian
orthodox church. After several months also a strange coincidence was that a real golden bread was found in the residence of
Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian politician and the fourth President of Ukraine in the years 2010-2014.