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Popiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project 2016. Newtiflis2016 (Aghmashenebeli ave.)- Popiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project 2016. 

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Dimensions : 120x120cm.

 Material: LED tubes

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Popiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project . Third location in Tbilisi at the Café Iveria on Republic Square."Giorgi Magradze’s Neon Heater is a diptych of squares composed from ceramic tops of conventional electric heaters. The artist inserted green and blue neon lights in the circular and rectangular creases of the ceramic surface transforming electric stovetop into minimalistic objects with colored neon scribbles on them."

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Exhibition (Response  :  Abilities) was held in Nice, Villa  Arson //  École nationale supérieure d'art -Centre d'art  contemporain.   

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  "Artists  talk  a lot  about freedom.  So, recalling  the  expression "free  as a bird," MortonFeldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends.When he came back,  he  said:  "Y ou  know?  They  'are not  free,  they  are  fighting  over  bits  of  food." John  Cage  From  "Four American  Composers".1983.  film  by  Peter  Greenaway. "Most  gulls  don't bother  to  learn  more than  the  simplest  facts  of  flight-  how  to  get  from shore  to food  and  back  again.  For  most  gulls  ,  it  is  not  flying  that matters,  but  eating.” Richard  Bach  .  "Jonathan  Livingston  Seagull  ".  1970 Daedalus crafts wax wings and emerges from  captivity ,  along with his son, Icarus.  Icarus  took off from the Labyrinth but despite of Daedalus' warning, comes too close to the sun; The wax melts  and  Icarus  falls  into  the  sea. The Myth about Daedalus and Icarus. The  formula,  "free  as  a  bird",  seems ephemeral  like,    the  word  "responsibility". Drawing  a  line  between individual  and  artificial  as  (externally  imposed)  responsibility  is  as problematic  as  defining  the  word  "freedom",  for    these  two  are strongly  interlinked. Based  on  the  principe  of  an  ornithopter  ,  an  artificial (mechanical)  bird  will  try  to  fly  away from  an electrical power source  but won't be able to  get rid  of it.  Since it  is  connected  to  its own  source  of power  and  is  not  as  "free  as  a  bird". In  an  electronic  as  well  as  not  in an  electronic  way , human  beings  are  also  linked  to  their  mental power source. Media delivering artificial responsibility , which form an obstacle for free choice and  personal  responsibility . 

Exhibition (Response  :  Abilities) was held in  Nice, Villa  Arson //  École nationale supérieure d'art -Centre d'art  contemporain.In  exhibition participated  students  of  Contemporari  Art  of  Tbilisi  (CCA). During the  exhibition mechanical bird cut  the  rope  which was tied  and ruled by ,  and fell  down.  And now it looks  like  this  … In  the  video  it  can  be  seen  the  movement the  bird  was  making before  the  falling.Now  it  is second  phase  of  the  work. 

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The “Batumi Backyard Stories” is a grassroots cultural initiative that brings together artists and citizens to explore and co-create the hidden histories that exist within any given neighborhood in the city.

Interdisciplinary artist teams interviewed the families who live within a neighborhood courtyard block, discovering their cultural legacies and creating a customized art installation and performance event in their neighborhood courtyard. The public art installations payed homage to what the neighborhoods’ families believe are their most precious cultural heritage stories or daily practices, and the general public was invited to attend these celebratory opening events.

Once selected, interdisciplinary artists worked closely with the neighborhood residents to learn what the local families believe are their most precious cultural legacies – their histories, personal stories, daily practices and customs. The production was supported by a curatorial and publicity team and the event will be open to the public. Each of the courtyards was transformed into a temporary gallery and stage.

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Exhibited at Batumi Backyard Stories 2015 

Once selected, interdisciplinary artists worked closely with the neighborhood residents to learn what the local families believe are their most precious cultural legacies – their histories, personal stories, daily practices and customs. The production was supported by a curatorial and publicity team and the event was open to the public. Each of the courtyards was transformed into a temporary gallery and stage.   

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Main prize design (first one on the right) for Electronauts - Awards for Innovative Pop Culture.  

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“Realization of this surreal construction plan is incomprehensible in this space. However, similar public spaces are often sacrificed in favor of private interest and become inaccessible for citizens.” – Giorgi Magradze “Iare Pekhit” (Walk) presents Public Art Project - “Residential House Near Baratashvili Bridgde ”. This is one of the five winning projects of contest “Uare Qalaqs” (Care for the City). The residents and guests of Tbilisi will have a chance to attend the project opening event, experience the transformed urban space and share the vision of the new generation artists.   

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The final exhibition of the second Stage of the project "Discover Eliava"  in colaboration with Iza Rogucka (Poland).  

At Eliava Market "culptures of Iza Rogucka (Poland) and Giorgi Magradze (Georgian) present combination of two worlds: classical sculpture and disposal of organic waste. Reference is made to classical art, which used to be an important part of an artistic life of both artists, however was not always actively used during their carriers. During the preparation of the project the artists decided to rely on two things that struck them most on Eliava market: unlimited amount of material and a man in possession of these materials who at the same time is the direct agent of the whole situation. In parallel to the stacks of goods such as car parts, building materials, elements of interior or food ordinary people try to make the ends meet through the fine trade. That’s why the artists have developed a question: how to process and bring out the excess that is present at such amount in our everyday lives? This reference to the relationship of a man and a matter brought to mind notion of a classic sculpture, which in its commonly understood form used proportions and compositions in order to transform the meaning of the beauty. Perfectly smooth surfaces hide behind their marble structure anatomy of the living organism and its skeleton - the basis of everything. Is it possible, however, to strip the sculptures of their idealized beauty and show their invisible parts like heart or liver to the public? Polish-Georgian artistic duo connects the idea of beauty to the abstract sculptures that are inspired by people who work in the market environment and helped to create them. Duo developed its artistic language during the three weeks and managed to gradually blend into the life of the Eliava. Silent sculptures express much more than just processed residues and give them a shape that interconnects with to the force of gravity. Awareness of space and traces of life which are imprinted in these sculptures give them a metaphorical meaning, attract and allow viewers to take a closer look and even touch them: in the end they are produced as the result of physical work of artists and workers of Eliava market."   (text by Iza Rogucka).   

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