ART
Publication "ДИАЛОГ ИСКУССТВ" 2016
ARTISTERIUM 8 Tbilisi Annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events 6.11.2015 - 16.11.2015
ARTISTERIUM is a Tbilisi annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Event organized by the Georgia-based non-governmental art organization Artisterium Association. The event is composed of international exhibitions, individual art projects, educational and cultural programs.
As an international event, ARTISTERIUM hosts the artists, artist groups, curators and art critics from around the world.
ARTISTERIUM is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, international and local art and culture organizations functioning in Tbilisi, such as the British Council, Goethe Institute, French Institute, the embassies working in Georgia
Batumi grafikart festival, Georgia 1.07.2015 - 20.07.2015
Group exhibition "ABSTRACTION" Gallery "Container" Radiani st. 10g, Tbilisi, Georgia 1.05.2015 - 10.05.2015
Group exhibition "Emanation" in the center of Contemporary art "Winzavod" Gallery "fotoloft" Moscow, Russia 1.05.2015 - 30.05.2015
Life without aggression or aggressive life? A choice before which there is any individual throughout material existence.
Way from the Divine, walkking back in reality full of aggression. An emanation - it is religious the philosophical term, will mark transition from the Divine to household reality, regress, transformation of spirituality to simpler reality.
Aggression - specifically focused behavior directed on removal of obstacles who create threat of physical and mental integrity of an organism. The reasons of aggressive behavior can be found in congenital instincts. It is a firm personal disposition, a death instinct. Pleasant emotional shift which comes in a consequence of aggressive behavior becomes its motive.
Always you choose the road itself. If you are able to resist to an emanation, you will perhaps reach a condition of perfect happiness. Divinity can be seen only in kindness. You can resist to aggression by good, kindness fights and with the evil, only this way you will be able to transform the evil.
Each person looks for the truth but where this truth, nobody knows. You look for the truth and you don't guess that it can be found only in herself
"ARTISTREIUM 7" Tbilisi Annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events. Tbilisi, Georgia 7.11.2014 - 17.11.2014
ARTISTERIUM is a Tbilisi annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Event organized by the Georgia-based non-governmental art organization Artisterium Association. The event is composed of international exhibitions, individual art projects, educational and cultural programs.
ARTISTERIUM hosts the artists, artist groups, curators and art critics from the South Caucasus, Turkey, Europe, USA and Asia.
ARTISTERIUM is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, British Council, Goethe Institute, French Institute and the embassies and institutions working in Georgia.
Publication "Black sea" 2014
"ART MOSCOW 17" International Art Fair. Moscow, Russia 18.09.2013 - 22.09.2013
Publication "Photography in Georgia" 2013
Personal exhibition "SILENTIUM" Design Factory "FLACON" Moscow, Russia 15.10.2012 - 25.10.2012
Images living inside of us, dreams, fantasies, the sky we looked through the sleepless nights, houses in which we used to live, all our memoirs remainn inside of us, creating the person, the unique Universe of individual existence. And these are the objects of this personal Universe that Zura longs to demonstrate to the audience through the portraits.
For a photographer, the world surrounding is a reflection of his personal spirit, a mirror of his mental model and of his perception model. Therefore, taking pictures of people, Zura discovers something from himself, digs it from the depth of their subconsciousness and imprints; he superimposes his personal images on fading faces which become just the intermediaries of the author's spiritual beginning into the external world.
Overlaying of the shots and drawing on the print allow achieving a stereoscopic picture, uncertainty of senses; the strongly pronounced black and white contrast focuses you on the emotional content of the work. The faces are somehow breaking through the darkness of unbeing to the light and finding a new life in the author's photo-works.
There is something mysterious in Zura's works; in each print, the author gives us the symbol leading us to decoding of the picture. The shot superimposing is as overlaying of various layers of life; the figures reminding of cave art are engraved on the face as the experiences of the life journey.
The photographer catches the part of the face, which concentrates the artistic idea and leaves everything distracting in the darknes
Design Factory "FLACON"
Most Novodmitrovskaya Street. 36s2, Moscow, Russia, 127015
"FEST I NOVA 2011" International Festival of Contemporary Art in honor of brothers Zdanevich. Garikula, Georgia 23.09.2011 - 30.09.2011
Group exhibition "Contemporary Art of Georgia" Gallery "Caravan Gallery" Paris, France 06.05.2011 - 15.05.2011
Participant of the exhibition "Contemporary Art of Georgia" Gallery "Caravan Gallery" Paris, France
"ART MOSCOW 14" International Art Fair. Moscow, Russia 22.09.2010 - 26.09.2010
Group exhibition "STATIONS: Paris-Kiev-Tbilisi" Embassy of Ukraine in France. Paris, France. 20.05.2010 - 10.06.2010
WINZAVOD ART REVIEW Third Moscow Biennale in the center of Contemporary art "Winzavod" Moscow, Russia 2009
Personal exhibition "Personal paradigm" in the center of Contemporary art "Winzavod" Gallery "fotoloft" Moscow, Russia 15.09.2009 - 30.10.2009
The FotoLoft Gallery presents a personal exhibition of Zura Arabidze, a Georgian photographer and artist. Fifteen black and white psychological portraits… and no people on them but projection of the author’s emotions.
Zura Arabidze sees his models as a reflection of his perceptions; this is why they are different from the real ones. They are personification of his personal paradigm.
Images living inside of us, dreams, fantasies, the sky we looked through the sleepless nights, houses in which we used to live, all our memoirs remain inside of us, creating the person, the unique Universe of individual existence. And these are the objects of this personal Universe that Zura longs to demonstrate to the audience through the portraits.
For a photographer, the world surrounding is a reflection of his personal spirit, a mirror of his mental model and of his perception model. Therefore, taking pictures of people, Zura discovers something from himself, digs it from the depth of their subconsciousness and imprints; he superimposes his personal images on fading faces which become just the intermediaries of the author's spiritual beginning into the external world.
Overlaying of the shots and drawing on the print allow achieving a stereoscopic picture, uncertainty of senses; the strongly pronounced black and white contrast focuses you on the emotional content of the work. The faces are somehow breaking through the darkness of unbeing to the light and finding a new life in the author's photo-works.
There is something mysterious in Zura's works; in each print, the author gives us the symbol leading us to decoding of the picture. The shot superimposing is as overlaying of various layers of life; the figures reminding of cave art are engraved on the face as the experiences of the life journey.
The photographer catches the part of the face, which concentrates the artistic idea and leaves everything distracting in the darkness.
So, mixing different techniques, the artist as though balls the picture senses clue.