Multimedia Art Project GAMMA by TBC and David Kakabadze Foundation
By Mariam Chanishvili
Monday, May 27
TBC and David Kakabadze Foundation present multimedia art project GAMMA.
GAMMA is a spatial-specific audiovisual installation, which studies human and light interaction in digital media. The architecture of the installation is based on connections of light and darkness.
The exhibition is dedicated to David Kakabadze - one of the most important Georgian artists, scientists, inventors and founders of Georgian modernism. It is the result of the research of Kakabadze’s heritage.
Kakabadze initiated various artistic and scientific projects in Georgia and France. He worked on electro-technical experiments, created a stereo-cinematic apparatus and refined the means of expressions in cinema.
At the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, David Kakabadze’s vision embodied the epoch. He observed the world and created works based on eternal foundations.
“The primary factor of modern life is machinism. Cinematograph has fundamentally changed the customary perception of three-dimensionality. Machinism has given us the previously inconceivable sense of dynamics. The dynamics of contemporary life is expressed in all its manifestations. It provides with a new sense of three-dimensionality. We should not fail to reconcile the forms of art with this phenomenon” said David Kakabadze in 1928.
Marking the 130th anniversary of Kakabadze’s birth, based on extensive analysis of his archives, artists Nikoloz Kapanadze, Mariam Akulashvili, and Dimitri Shubitidze have created a work, which is an imminent continuation of his research.
Dimitri Shubitidze, one of the creators of the project performed during the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
The multimedia project was created by three different artists - Dimitri Shubitidze, Nikoloz Kapanadze, and Maryam Sasha. The authors have researched the materials that have not been studied previously from Kakabadze's archives, as well as the scientific observations and his artistic works.
"While studying and researching David Kakabadze's work, his observations in quantum physics grabbed our attention - seeing how can the subject change during the process. His abstract works showed us the possible layout of installation in the facilities,” said Nikoloz Kapanadze.
“Connecting different disciplines to one another always leads to the discovery of the new ones. Working in digital format, along with artists working in different fields, creates a completely new experience,” said Maryam Sasha.
The exhibition will be available to the public until June 7.
