Bendeliani Tornike
Bendeliani Tornike was born in 1992 in Moscow.
Self-taught artist.
He started to paint in 2016. He also graduated from Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 2015.
Bendeliani lives and works in Moscow.
Technique of work: watercolour on paper and acrylic (when the background is monochrome). Some works are attached to the canvas on a stretcher.
In ancient times, objects drew attention to themselves in a very different way. The object itself was a symbol of larger phenomena or meanings - a mask through which their essence was visible. Now symbolic thinking has been relegated to the margins of consciousness, but it lives on in art. It continues to work, bringing frozen objectivity to life, making sense of a renewed world. Its current beauty is the freedom of such comprehension.
The artist gives experience to new images and models through painting. The boundaries in the paintings are malleable. The viewer can see or guess different meanings in contemporary silhouettes of people, in successfully or unsuccessfully chosen objects, faces, animals and broken lines. This is how - as bricolage - the language of narration is born, followed by the language of interaction. The stroke, the shape, the colour are not related to the subject. It is pure aesthetics, designed to evoke the inner language of the beholder through the universality of geometric forms or a shared sense of colour. If you look at the blueness of the sky, the feeling of blueness will not belong only to you; others will understand it without pointing to the sky with a hand.
Most of the works are not titled so as not to give rise to speculation: «What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what cannot be said must be kept quiet». You can enter the plane of the works and look at the world from a different angle with curiosity. Here the world is distorted and refracted and coloured glasses give birth to phantasmagoria. It's a way of grappling with the mundane realities, even if they are more vivid. But you have to fight them by defending space for other experiences.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
- 2022 — a-s-t-r-a Open.Vol 1, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
- 2022 — IV Contemporary Art Market WIN-WIN, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
- 2019 — ArtLitfond-2 Auction: Contemporary Art, late XX - early XXI century, 2022 Future, А3 Gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
- 2019 — Auction ArtLitFund: Contemporary and Future Art of Russia, XXI-XXII centuries, Moscow, Russia.
- 2018 — Untitled Foundation charity auction supported by Sotheby's, Moscow, Russia.
- 2018 — Untitled Prize, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow, Russia.
- 2018 — Art Lihoradca 2, BORSCH Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2017 — Art Lihoradca, BORSCH Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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