Frozen moments: Architecture Speaks Back is a project organized by the Laura Palmer Foundation in Poland addressing and taking place in the enigmatic Ministry of Transportation building in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Ministry of Transportation building is viewed by many Georgians as an eyesore and relic of the Soviet era, although many young Georgian artists admire the building. Recently bought by the Bank of Georgia, the building has somehow been turned over to a week of cross platform installations, performances, talks and activities that address the building and a constellation of political, economic, aesthetic and architectural associations.
My project involved producing two paintings that captured iconographically and with typological depiction, the Ministry building. Inspired by the history of the country's transportation-- from the Silk Road, to the efficient Soviet system to the present disruption through internal conflict-- I wanted to track the paintings' shipment as a conceptualization of the path of physical image data rather than digital. The paintings' banner-like installation suggest a dematerialization, deflation and decomposition of not only the painting as object but also the architecture in which it is placed.
The project is sprawling and here you can see an extensive photo album with the diversity of projects. Some of my favorite are: Urban Guerrilla Gardening , photographic installations and murals. Below are installation shots from my work, as well as work by Gio Sumbadze and Koka Ramishvili.
Description of Goods on Invoice: Painting, (brushed oil and acrylic on
unstretched canvas). The perceived value of these
paintings are not in their commercial cost but rather
in their conceptual and contextual worth, which is
created in part by this documentation and shipping
process.
Shipments One and Two, Installation View in Ministry of Transportation Building
Shipments One and Two, Installation View in Ministry of Transportation Building
From left to right, Greg Lindquist, Gio Sumbadze (on columns) and Koka Ramishvili (on right wall)
Greg Lindquist, Documentation from Transportation of Painting
Shipments One and Two, Installation View in Ministry of Transportation Building
Koka Ramishvili, Installation View
Gio Sumbadze, Installation View
Open reception View, July, 2010
Open reception View, July, 2010
1 comments:
I enjoy the space.
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