The Georgian
National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, presents the exhibition of Gia Bugadze's
artworks ‘Olim – Ever’ at the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery from 6
March to 11 April 2018.
Olim (Latin) means ‘ever’ and represents
two tenses - past and future. The exposition of Gia Bugadze's artworks ‘Olim –
Ever’ is a megalography, consisting of 33 independent pieces concerted under
the same idea.
Gia Bugadze maintains that Europeans,
and not only Europeans, ‘have one household tradition or behaviour - when the
apartment is to be temporarily empty, objects, furniture, mirrors or chandeliers
are covered with white material (dust-cloths) – the shroud – to avoid damage
until the residents return home.
‘Olim is a visual memory
"theater" that is aimed at saving and retaining. That's why I used
this method: I selected scenes from the Holy Scripture, namely from Gospels. I
depicted the easily recognizable iconographic versions, then captured them on
canvas and covered with white shroud - I obscured, saved and hid them until the
time of revelation,’ says Bugadze.
The series ‘Olim – Ever’ conceals
and unfolds contents, ‘until the various ideas, hidden and covered, will soon
be revealed, opened and explained; this will come to life only when there is
time to return home.’
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom
(2017), 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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