Koka Ramishvili »Independent Organism«

In his third solo exhibition at Häusler Contemporay München, Koka Ramishvili (*1956 in Tbilisi, GE) presents a selection of black and white photographs and sculptural paintings of 2016. The Geneva based artists who became internationally known mainly for his video pieces thus again shows the masterful complexity of his work.
In his current black and white pictures he confronts photography’s supposed ability to reproduce reality and its narrative aspects with formal concepts such as contour and blurriness, still life and motion recording. The very poetic images that result from this approach seem to capture the structure of light and depict painterly qualities of photography, pushing the static medium to the limits of the filmic one.
With his series »Lost Landscape«, Ramishvili tests landscape painting as an abstract, atmospheric fragment – in the technique of the Flemish Old Masters. Furthermore, the subtle color gradients on wood figure somewhere between picture and object.
Koka Ramishvili got wide attention thanks to his participation in the Venice Biennial of 2009. Apart from that, institutions such as the MAMCO in Geneva (2004) or he M HKA in Antwerp (2011) showed his work extensively.