Artist in Focus - Koka Ramishvili (კოკა რამიშვილი, 1956)
“Koka Ramishvili is a Georgian artist currently residing in Geneva, who works with different media, and any of his projects is distinguished by reflexivity and exquisite quality.
His artist biography is very diverse: embracing artistic quests on general issues, as well as personal and intimate spaces.
They are consolidated by the artist’s thoughtful position, an attitude towards painting itself, as well as artistic messages and contexts.
Koka Ramishvili is one of the foremost artists in the recent history of Georgian Visual Art, having begun the search for comprehensive artistic approaches to problems brought about
by the transitional period of post-Soviet reality.
In one of his recent projects, Koka Ramishvili chose an aerodrome for his subject matter; a so-called anthropological space of transience, where a curtain printed with a photographic landscape accurately restores the limited and ephemeral condition of the aerodrome.
According to Koka Ramishvili’s explanation- “an aerodrome as a curtain, as your internal mood…you have to shut the curtain to block out the sun and descend into yourself this way.”
“Georgian Pavilion at Venice 53rd Biennale and Koka Ramishvili’s conditional premises”
Khatuna Khabuliani
Art Historian
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16 янв 2021
