23−30.08.2024, BASEL, SWITZERLAND
AT THE INVITATION OF BASEL LYCEUM CLUB OF SWITZERLAND, INITIATED BY NINO GAMSAKHURDIA,TBILISI N9 GALLERY WITH THE LYCEUM CLUB OF GEORGIA, PRESENTED A GROUP EXHIBITION OF GEORGIAN WOMEN ARTISTS, "HOME", CURATED BY THE ART CRITIC SOPHIE KEBURIA.
“A home can be both tangible and intangible. A home is your world, cozy or cramped, but familiar. A home can be an apartment, full of still lifes made out of memorabilia and souvenirs, with self-sewn decorations and portraits of ancestors on the walls. A home is your most personal thoughts, worries, dreams, fantasies, colored with your favorite colors. A home is the landscapes that make your heart beat faster. A home is like a precious jewel given by a dear person that you never take off. Home is the place from where you start exploring the world and where you always want to return at the end of the journey.“
Different works by field (painting, graphics, digital media, fabric, collage, jewelry, accessories), genre, style and media were united around the concept Home. In front of Basel's main cathedral, on the crowded Münsterplatz, visitors to the Lyceum Club space for a week saw the works of 12 female artists.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by large number of people, not only members of the Basel club, but also from other cities of Switzerland and other countries (Germany, France) (and not only). On the opening day, Tamar Beraia, a Georgian pianist living in Switzerland, performed works by European and Georgian composers.
Tamar Gedevanishvili's serial cycle Life and Love was presented in the form of 4 canvases measuring 50x70 cm each, as well as his graphic works. The cycle is four independent and at the same time one character of the work, where the artist wanted to show the daily life and love of a person, the desire of a person to be in constant action and be able to solve the problems set by life, the joy or pain given by love. A person seems to carry some kind of burden intended for her, seemingly not heavy, but she is always surrounded by a chimerical, unreal, often imaginary danger. Her hidden and ephemeral fears, daily accompanying thought, which can be expressed by such a specific object as a stack of chairs;
Trying to be somewhere and at the same time not to be there, isolating yourself in a certain space and allowing the environment to be only a temporary visual image of where you are. There are many questions and attempts to get to where you will find the key to these questions, but perhaps the key is in the daily actions, thoughts and love in which we find ourselves.
"I keep thinking - where is the person? Here, in this reality, or somewhere in the past, maybe in someone's mind or in your own dream? It is an untouchable state, the boundaries of time are erased, as if we are inventing some yardsticks to measure where we are. But I may step into a completely different place now, or I believe that everything that surrounds us, that exists, or that we think about - images and objects - can intersect in inappropriate time and space, creating an invisible visual illustration that is called our "true" portrait."
