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Shahane Hakobyan
hakobyan@galeriekornfeld.com
The installation Breaking News: The Flooding of the Louvre (2018-20) uses a method of ‘falsification’ in order to address our current climate crisis and issues of fake news and modern media culture. As one watches the uncannily realistic video footage of water entering the prestigious museum venue we experience an event that has not yet occurred but could very well someday soon be a part of our shared reality.
A gripping realisation of the deep historical values which are also at risk from natural disasters caused by climate change. This work arose from a particular concern of the artist of the Paris floods of 2018, and the subsequent laissez-faire attitudes shown through news media coverage at the time for such events.
Tezi Gabunia was born in 1987 in Tbilisi, Georgia and holds a bachelors degree in Architecture from the University of Tbilisi. Gabunia mainly uses a systematic approach to his work, focusing on research of cultural issues and manipulation with various medias.
In 2016 he was awarded with the Tsinandali Prize in Visual Arts for his project Put Your Head into Gallery, which was exhibited in Batumi, Tbilisi, Vienna (Contemporary Art Fair) and Krakow (MOCAK Museum Of Contemporary Art, Poland) from 2015-2017.
Gabunia‘s works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Georgia and Europe including his latest inclusion in the group exhibition Story as a Woven Carpet curated by Irena Popiashvili at 68projects in Berlin, Germany and his solo presentation in Focus section in the Armory show in New York in March 2020.
Last update 22nd October 2020