Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Abstracted Face 4, 2024
Painting : oil, acrylic, Textiles · 100 x 80 x 3 cm 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,651
2 651 £GB
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
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Dimensions ( cm • inch )
100 x 80 x 3 cm 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
Acrylic, oil, textile & pigment on soviet-erra fabric biazi
A haunting dialogue between presence and absence. Gela Mikava explores the fragility of memory through a sophisticated layering process. The composition balances figurative elements with aggressive abstraction. A facial silhouette emerges from the haze. It is then systematically obscured by vertical streaks and heavy washes of grey.
The foundation is deeply symbolic. The artist utilizes reclaimed Soviet-era biazi cotton fabric. This textile once lined the ceilings of domestic interiors. Now it serves as a physical archive of a vanished era.
Oil and acrylic pigments interact with the porous surface. The colors remain muted and atmospheric. They evoke a sense of psychic residue. The technique of erasure mimics the fading of personal and collective histories. It creates a tension between what is revealed and what is hidden. The artwork functions as a study of post-socialist radiation. It captures the lingering psychological traces of an ideology. The visual result is an ethereal portrait where the human form dissolves into the material. Each drip of paint acts as a veil over the past. The final image remains a ghostly remnant of identity.
Presentation
Born in 1995 in Zugdidi, Georgia, Gela Mikava is a Georgian contemporary artist who lives and works in Tbilisi. Trained as an architect, he received his BA in Architecture from Georgian Technical University in 2018 and completed his MA in 2021. His artistic practice developed at the intersection of painting, material research, and installation, exploring the relationship between personal and collective memory, material history, and contemporary experience.
A distinctive element of Mikava's practice is his use of authentic Soviet-era biazi cotton fabric, reclaimed from old domestic interiors. Previously used as ceiling covering in Soviet-period homes, the fabric is carefully removed, cleaned, and transformed into a surface for painting. For the artist, this material functions as a form of archive, carrying traces of domestic life, time, use, and disappearance before becoming part of the artwork.
Mikava's practice is closely connected to his concept of “Post-Socialist Radiation," through which he examines the subtle psychological and aesthetic traces of Soviet ideology that continue to exist within contemporary life. Working across painting, textile, collage, and installation, he employs processes of layering, absorption, washing, peeling, obscuring, and erasure to explore how memory can remain embedded within materials and surfaces.
His projects include *The Bijouterie*, *Post-Alienation*, *Infanta Destruction*, *Predators & Herbivores*, *Artificial Flowers*, and *What Remains of Gesture*. His work has been presented internationally in Europe and the United States, including a solo exhibition *It is Heard — The Silence, I See — Nothing* in Atlanta in 2024. His work has also been presented at art fairs and exhibitions in London and is held in private and institutional collections, including the Lester Marks Collection.
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