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Tamuna Sirbiladze
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Name
Tamuna Sirbiladze
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Tamuna Sirbiladze (12 February 1971 – 2 March 2016) was an artist based in Vienna, Austria.
Sirbiladze's background influenced her approach to painting: "Sirbiladze was exposed to art mostly through books—her home country had few museums. She knew early on that she wanted to be an artist, however, and cited the colors of the art she came across as the reason she ended up painting." She told Forbes in a 2015 interview, "Searching for light and color is my main engagement".
Work
Sirbiladze made paintings known for their speed, and she sometimes incorporated text into her work. Her characteristic style merged the figurative and the gestural. Her paintings have been described as "highly expressive" with splashes of color "forming abstracted figures and patterns." An Art in America review, a year before her death at age 45, remarks on the "energetic content" of her work, saying "Sirbiladze's line is spare; abundant, creamy negative space supports the gentle diagonal flow of marks" anchored by unexpected forms. Critic Alex Greenberger said, "Sirbiladze's paintings played with the division between figuration and abstraction, often melding the two in ambiguous images. Genitalia and bodies can be glanced in some, while in others, objects like jugs and fruits seem to materialize. Sirbiladze's paintings recall the work of Henri Matisse and the Impressionists in their light, expressive brushwork."
Sirbiladze's work was introduced to a New York audience in 2015 through two solo exhibitions. Sirbiladze had exhibited in Europe including at Jonathan Viner Gallery in London and Secession in Vienna. She wasn't known to New York audiences until she had "two shows of her abstract paintings, at Half Gallery and James Fuentes in 2015. For the former exhibition, "Sirbiladze turned Half Gallery's Upper East Side space into an installation—two walls were covered in a series of purple, dark-blue, and green smears, and paintings were hung on top."
Publications
titles, Onestar press, Paris 2014
Der Ficker No. 2, Benedikt Ledebur (Editor), Schlebrügge, Vienna 2006
artists and poets, Ugo Rondinone (Editor), Secession, Vienna 2015
NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, 2015
Selected exhibitions
1997
Bricks and Kicks – Weather, Vienna
1999
The Sun Will Rise – Old Gallery, Tbilisi
Graduate Group Show – Academy of Fine Art, Tbilisi
Auction show – Tea House Gallery, Tbilisi
New Paintings – Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi
2000
Juana e Juanita – Galleria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Aktuellestundentinnenarbeiten – curated by de:Kasper König, Semperdepot, Vienna
Cultural Sidewalk - Gumpendorf2000 – curated by de:Heidulf Gerngross, Vienna
2001
Point of View – Künstlerhauspassage, Vienna
Plakatentwürfe Collaboration with Franz West – Gallery Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2002
Parlez Vous Francais, English Dictionary – Mac, Marseille
Apartement Franz West – Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2003
La-Bas – curated by Stephan Schmidt-Wullfen, Nexus kunsthalle Saalfelden, Saalfelden, Germany
Franz West and Friends – , curated by Anthony Auerbach, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Moon Light – Collaboration with Franz West, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2004
Update – Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, curated by de:Hans Peter Wipplinger, Museum of Modern Art, Passau
Le Opere I Giorni – Certosa Di San Lorenzo, Padula, Salerno
Video Art Expo – curated by Luca Gurci, Bari, Italy
2005
Camere/Chambers – Rum, Roma
The Red Thread – Educational Alliance Gallery, New York
Seconda – Biennale internationale d'arte di Ferrara, Ferrara
2006
Der Ficker – Haus Wittgenstein – Elizabeth & Klaus Thoman Gallery, Vienna
Gnomons, groupshow with Lawrence Weiner, Walter Robinson, Julie Ryan, Jason Stopa, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Lazar Lyutakov, Doug Johnston and Karin Fauchard. 08. 07., Non-Objectif Sud (NOS), Tulette, France