"Manifatura”, Contemporary Arts and Crafts Days at Unkapani,/Istanbul Biennale parallel event/, Istanbul, Turkey; Is a Project, which took place in a specific area in Istanbul, called 'Unkapani'.
This is a place where every thing is chaotically arranged: shops, barbers, fruit seller man walking all the way with his cart, strange old buildings ready to collapse, and the mixed nationalities, like: Kurdish Turkish, Arabs, Armenians, and other, making there living.
It is a place where everything is ready to be changed. Starting about 100 years ego, living nicely, making there own business, creating families and friends, now people have no choice, but to obey the Metabolised structure of the city. The whole Unkapani is going to be changed into a high standard European, market or business place.
So we had the mission, to create a nice small part, into an interesting art-place.
With people attracted from different socio-cultural environment, and different prophesies like: Artists, Architects, Film makers, Designers . . . etc.
So the cultural artistic Project began with, a close connections between the artists from different countries and the residents of unkapani (Basically craftsmen). There where many interesting stories told by craftsmen about their parents who lived there for a long time, and made this place Appear. That now they will have to leave these places.
After, our entire project was successfully realized, with a great help of craftsmen and whole neighbourhood. Firstly unpleasant faces became, pleasant and smiley.
Our art works attracted hundreds of people … all of them interested in a synthesis of art, Crafts and Design, and in creating of interesting, integral connections.
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Outdoor Video Installation, Tv Monitor,
Mixed Media on Canvas 200x1200,
Text on Metal 15x100Sign (Logo) on Metal 50x30
Istanbul, Turkey
You can now have a view of my Art works, but before we start i would like to make a little introduction to the real Sense of Art. Sometimes people wonder why a person should have a motive to create art, some don't even understand what is Art, or what it is needed for.
First of all every art piece or object has its own nature, reflecting the unseen structure of the universe. you may ask question why?-or-how? can an object reflect the sense of creation? the answer might be simple and hard at the same time: Artist is a person who is creating, most likely non-functional objects, at a first sight, but beside this he puts a hidden meaning (consciously or unconsciously), thus he becomes, a kind of receiver and deliverer of the sense (or information) to the public.
The only way to read the hidden information is to activate our feeling abilities, which is after transformed into the feeling called "Sense".
Please enjoy the works in any sense you would like:
L-Print; Text on metal
"Cities from above"
L-Print
Luka Zautashvili / Luka.Zet - multimedia artist and architect
Born 18.06.1986, Tbilisi, Georgia
Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia.
EDUCATION:
2001/2005 Skrinnikov-Dombrovskii, Art Studio, Tbilisi, Georgia;
2002
Entered the “Tbilisi State Academy of Arts”, Architectural department;
2003
Graduated from the “New Art and Kodak Express”, photo studio, Tbilisi,
Georgia;
2006
Graduated from the “Tbilisi State Academy of Arts”, Architectural department.
EXHIBITIONS AND WORKSHOPS:
2004 “Dimensions”, Gallery Orient, Tbilisi, Georgia;
2005“Art for Freedom”, National Art Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia;
“Watercolour Wave”, National Art Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia
“Room N.9” Education project, Tbilisi,
State Academy of Arts, Georgia;
2006“Workshop and Planner”,
Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
“Caucasus Biennale Declaration 2006”, Tbilisi, Georgia;
2007“Manifatura”, Contemporary Arts and Crafts Days at Unkapani,
/Istanbul Biennale parallel event/, Istanbul, Turkey;
“Preferred Idea in Preferred Technique” Workshop
(/Dmitri Gutov/ Russia) ”/International Academy of Education/,
Armenian Open University; “Changes through Exchanges 2”
Yerevan, Armenia;
“Art Caucasus 2007” Project “One stop”
“She’s Thinking He’s Thinking” Video - Performance
/Literature café, - Video room/ Tbilisi, Georgia;
“Realities of Dreams”Aluminium 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art.Project: “
Interpretation of Dreams”.
Gallery “Absheron”/ Baku, Azerbaijan
“Artisterium 2008”International Exhibition of Cobtemporary Art
Project "Revelation " Media : Video
Exhibition Centre Carvasla / Tbilisi, Georgia
Artisterium Official Website
