Tezi Gabunia is Tbilisi-based Visual Artist, who mainly focuses on the research of cultural issues and manipulation with various media of visual arts.
Tezi Gabunia was born in 1987 in Georgia. In 2008, the modern artist gained a Bachelor degree in Architecture. From 2011 till now, has been actively working in different media of visual arts. Has participated in personal and group exhibitions of contemporary art, publications were made about his work in various online and printed media both locally and internationally. In 2016 he was awarded Tsinandali Prize in Visual Arts (Georgia).
Natural disaster increasingly linked to a climate change has arrived at the museum of Louvre, in response to the flooding of Paris in 2018. The art installation also represents the issue of cultural leftover. Recycling is the main value of the process. By the destruction of a model that was a part of the previous project Put Your Head into Gallery, the leftovers are reconstructed, and new meanings and possibilities are created.
The unique art speaks about news culture and our fluctuating perception of disasters as it is seen through media. The scale of the disaster is often difficult to assess from news coverage. In work “Breaking News” flood goes slowly into the room of the Louvre, letting the viewer watch the destruction of the interior gradually. It brings the viewer shockingly close to what has not happened but easily could have, the viewer sees the before and after effect in a highly visualized manner, which is as convincing and threatening, as fake. The modern art piece presents a scoop, a situation, where the information as a show exceeds the terrifying nature of the catastrophe and where the real event is abolished. Is the information a new type of reality? Is it possible to cover actual events? These issues arise during the encounter of two situations - destruction of art artifacts and spectacular feature of this process.
Worked on the project:
Amashukeli Levan, Aphrasidze Vajiko, Barbakadze Temur, Barbakadze Andro, Chkhaidze Andro, Sephiashvili Misho, Vinda Folio, KinoFactory, Post Red Audio.
Koroshinadze Dato, Maisuradze Nika, Nadareishvili Mariam, Shengelia Oto, Tsanava Dato.
Photo Credits: Mamasakhlisi, Kikalastudio
Model of Material: Aquarium, PVC. Plexiglass, Wooden paper.
Acknowledgments:
Antadze Misho, Chkhikvadze Irakli, Dolize David, Griskeviciute Morta, Kartlelishvili Temo, Ksnelashvili Vano, MUA.
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Flooded Louvre - The view of Rubens’ room
Flooded Louvre - The Right view of Rubens’ room
Flooded Louvre - The Left view of Rubens’ room
Model of the Louvre
