Andro Wekua
Andro Wekua
November 1 — December 21, 2019
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Andro Wekua. Known for the multidisciplinary nature of his practice, Wekua has created a series of paintings and sculptures that continue his career-long exploration of the liminal space between objectivity and subjective interpretation. In works that are redolent with the artifacts of an ambiguous and undefined history, Wekua presents a series of tableaux that reveal themselves to us as emotionally familiar in spite of the artist’s gestures of obfuscation and his conscious disavowal of the formal tropes of narrative.
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About
Photo by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili.
Andro Wekua (b. 1977, Sokhumi, Georgia) lives and works between Zurich and Berlin. Wekua studied visual arts at the National Art School, Sokhumi, Georgia, Philippine Institute “Gogebashvili,” Tbilisi, Georgia, and the Visual Art School in Basel, Switzerland. Solo museum exhibitions include TANK Shanghai, China; Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany; Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; WIELS, Brussels; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Camden Arts Center, London; the De Hallen Haarlem, Netherlands; Le Magasin, Grenoble, France; and the Benaki Museum, Athens. He has participated in various group shows including ILLUMInations at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Contemplating the Void at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2010); 10,000 Lives at the 8th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2010); Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2008), and the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).
