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Clay Wall Piece: art exhibition in Tbilisi, Georgia



Clay Wall Piece is an art exhibition at the Georgian National Gallery from 5-26 October 2016. The Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery in Tbilisi is hosting an exhibition by the Contemporary Ceramic Artists of Georgia.

The concept of the exhibition is that clay is a form of communicating within the outside world. All pieces are on the wall, which breaks from the traditional forms of ceramics as kitchenware, jewelry, or other uses of clay. Although one of the oldest forms of practical everyday objects, the exhibition focuses on contemporary representations.

Clay Wall Piece is a series of clay, or ceramic, artwork by Lia Bagrationi, Nato Eristavi, Otar Vepkhvadze, Aleksandre Kakabadze, Gigisha Pachkoria, Merab Gugunashvili, Malkhaz Shevelidze, and Lali Kutateladze (the Project Art Curator and person who conceived the idea).

The wall of clay faces by Otar Vepkhvadze is called Illusion.





Lali Kutateladze’s An Indifferent Gaze includes four pieces, one with three black birds.



Nato Eristavi’s Four Temperaments are four ceramic faces mounted on glass, so that viewers can see ‘inside the head’ – showing cotton wool, candy, bubbles, and chillis: ‘When I turned my head, That traveller I’d just passed, Melted in the Mist’ (Masaoka Shiki). Another clay work is Opus II, showing a piano keyboard.





Gigisha Pachkoria has a series of works called The Artefacts: ‘Artefacts in the ground, in the water, in the fire. One of the artefacts can move in space and can return to the other artefacts – in the ground, in the water, in the fire.’



Malkhaz Shevelidze’s Moorish Wall Games for Adults is his ‘attempt at playing with fragments, which are nomads, into time and space …’



Lia Bagrationi’s Drought is ‘to deprive to clay of the veneer of craftmanship and lay bare its essence.’



Aleksandre Kakabadze has pieces which depict The Motives of the Gospel of Luke.



Merab Gugunashvili’s Fiction represents that ‘Often times, imagination becomes reality. Take, for example, a child’s game when their imaginary world could become so believable that it could blur the line between the real and the irreal worlds. This could completely impinge on the child’s imagination and lead to fantasy overpowering reality …








MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).


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