Art Brussels 2024

Presented artist Nika Kutateladze

Gallery Artbeat presents Nika Kutateladze’s recent paintings for his solo booth at Art Brussels 2024.

In kutateladze’s art, painting as a medium is defined as means to analyze solidarity, empathy, problems, and being. Besides that, we clearly feel those reversive impulses, which function as the main feature to deconstruct an image. The artist uses narration characteristics in Georgian fairy tales and translates them into the current context. Each of his depicted objects seems to be freezed in time, painfully and dramatic. In order to achieve this timelessness effect artist often refers to compositional schemes of Georgian medieval iconography and mythological structural narrative. He puts forward issues like economic poverty and emigration. The storyline about mother going to hunt can be understood as mothers leaving their land and settling in foreign places in order to feed their children. In general, artist uses different methods and references to express far broader problems, which have been permanent for the last decades in Georgia.

Furthermore, Kutateladze skillfully integrates various elements that reflect the rich tapestry of Georgian culture and its distinctive geographic identity. Through his art, he captures the essence of the landscape, the distinctive characters, and the unique atmosphere that characterize Georgia.

Nika Kutateladze is a Georgian contemporary artist born in 1989 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He currently resides and works in both Georgia and France. With a profound passion for artistic expression, he embarked on his creative journey by enrolling on the faculty of Architecture at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2007. Deepening his artistic education, Kutateladze pursued an informal master's course at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi (CCA-T) in 2013.

Kutateladze's artistic practice primarily revolves around installations, sculptures, and recently also paintings that intricately explore the multifaceted dimensions of day-to-day consumerism and environmental issues. His artworks serve as profound reflections on the transformative processes of architectural spaces and the urban environment as a whole. Through his creative lens, Kutateladze delves into the complexities of migration and how socio-economic conditions manifest in both architecture and daily life. His thought-provoking and poetic symbolic interpretations offer viewers an opportunity for introspection and dialogue.

Throughout his career, Nika Kutateladze has garnered international recognition through his participation in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His works have been showcased at esteemed venues both in Georgia and outside. Notable exhibitions include 'My Neighbour is a House' at Artbeat Tbilisi, Georgia (2023), 'The way we live together' at VITRINE Bermondsey, London, UK (2023), 'Tariel is Getting Ready for Hibernation' at Artbeat, Tbilisi, Georgia (2021), 'Metamorphosis- Art in Europe Now’ at ‘Fondation Cartier', Paris, France (2019), and 'To Protect My House While I'm Away' at the Tbilisi Architectural Biennial, Tbilisi, Georgia (2018).