SEA CUT
September 14 — October 22, 2022
New York: 64th Street
In his exhibition at Gladstone 64, Georgian artist Andro Wekua presents a series of new paintings that continue upon his multimedia approach in articulating familiar yet strange, specific yet ambiguous representations of memory. Utilizing processes of layering, silk-screening, and collaging with oils, charcoals, and pencils, Wekua builds upon many layered surfaces to bring forth complex narratives that combine facets of history, geography, fantasy, and memory into physically and conceptually dense compositions.
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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).
