Dissolution at Tbilisi Art Fair 2024

Dissolution is participating for the second time at the fourth edition of Tbilisi Art Fair, 11-14 April 2024 at Expo Georgia. We are showing five young Georgian artists (a list of artists and works is available below).

If you’re in Tbilisi, comes see us at booth C7.

List of artists (names link to their respective Instagram pages):

Salomeya Bauer

Nino Eliashvili

Natia Sapanadze

Ketevan Varshanidze

Lasha Tchrelashvili

Briefly about the artists:

Salomeya Bauer

Salomeya Bauer has lived by performance principles for several years, never knowing which of life's moments will provide inspiration for a new painting or series. Fascinated by mythology, she studies myths in search of new significance for her hero's actions. In her works, Bauer pays close attention to the poses and gestures of her subjects, portraying frozen moments, “interrupted by a static canvas.” She creates using acrylics, as well as oil pastels and markers.

Nino Eliashvili

With a distinctive, ethereal drawing style, Georgian artist Nino Eliashvili’s work investigates a broad array of internal states, including the spiritual and emotional, as well as ideas of beauty and aesthetics. Though Nino also employs acrylic and oil paints in her practice, it is her skillful handling of watercolor that imbues her work with emotional undertones, interfacing in tandem with her dreamlike, surreal compositions. With their unique symbolic language, her work opens up a world of interpretive possibilities yet remains grounded in paradigmatic themes of human existence.

Natia Sapanadze

Natia: My works are an ironic reflection of people's fears, memories, emotions, and the world as a whole. That is why the pieces elicit both dread and humor. It is the product of a voyage into the deepest parts of the human mind. 

My creative process consists primarily of thinking, followed by drawing. I mostly work with oil paints. When painting on canvas, I typically use erasing techniques to blur the images. I also like to experiment. I occasionally use old photographs, cement, thread and molds. 

Painting is, in my opinion, the most effective way to communicate with the outside world. I hope my art inspires people and gives them the courage to face challenges. Difficulties that are genuinely humorous.

Ketevan Varshanidze

Ketevan Varshanidze (b. 1995) works and lives in Batumi. She graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts specializing in painting. Her primary medium is oil paintings, but she experiments with alternate media as well. Varshanidze explores places that are not fully explored by humans. For her, these places are those that leave the strongest impression in her mind, conveying a sense of emptiness and loneliness. There is an element of self-portraiture in many of her pieces.

Lasha Tchrelashvili

Born in Tbilisi and based in Berlin, Tchrelashvili uses the painting process to think. Sometimes he’s distracted, but other times he’s fully immersed in his craft. As he observes his thinking, the painting appears on the canvas, an analysis of his internal state, his spiritual state and his position relative to the universe.

The emotional and conceptual dialogue goes beyond his own internal world. Tchrelashvili brings his watercolor drawings from 2020 to this year’s edition of TAF.

About Dissolution

Founded in 2022 by David Finestein, Dissolution is space for both Georgian and foreign artists to show innovative work. After organizing exhibitions in New York, David has decided to bring the same feel to an underground space in Tbilisi.

Dissolution has now moved online, delivering work by living artists to inboxes around the world every Friday.

Inquiries

For a complete list of works or purchase inquiries, please write to [email protected]