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Luka Manjgaladze
Georgian Contemporary Art by Luka Manjgaladze - Sewer is my Home

2023

$2,900
£2,190.68
€2,554.43VAT Included
CA$4,116.26
A$4,142.54
CHF 2,404.31
MX$50,305.45
NOK 27,617.83
SEK 28,506.91
DKK 19,095.07

About the Item

Oil on canvas, Luka Manjgaladze is a Georgian artist born in 1995 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Largely self-formed, Manjgaladze has painted since early childhood and was among the first to bring street art to Georgia, at thirteen. He studied at the Georgian Academy of Arts before leaving to continue on his own terms. Manjgaladze's paintings are dense, crowded, and alive. Figures, symbols, and ornament press against each other on the canvas without asking permission — sacred and grotesque, ceremonial and absurd, all at once. His subjects exist somewhere between ritual and rupture: a body full of arrows that looks more triumphant than defeated, a skeleton seated at a dinner table as though it belongs there, soldiers dressed like temple walls. The decorative is never only decorative in his work. Pattern carries weight. Humor carries menace. Working primarily in oil on canvas, and occasionally in acrylic and mixed media, Manjgaladze builds worlds that feel simultaneously ancient and completely his own. His canvases are not compositions so much as collisions — the kind that leave a mark on both things. Something theological presses against something criminal. Something tender presses against something that has no interest in being tender. The images do not resolve. They accumulate, the way obsessions do, the way a life does when it is being lived at full volume in every direction at once. He moves between periods of total immersion — fourteen hours a day in the studio, reading, watching, listening, working, the outside world reduced to fuel — and periods of living with equal intensity beyond the canvas. The urge to paint is never fully absent. It returns like a verdict. His figures carry the weight of every tradition he has ever consumed without belonging fully to any of them. They are post-everything and pre-nothing — caught in the suspended moment of an image that knows it is being watched and refuses to explain itself. Color in his work does not describe; it pressurizes. Ornament does not decorate; it argues. The sacred and the grotesque do not coexist peacefully in these paintings. They need each other, the way opposites always secretly do.
  • Creator:
    Luka Manjgaladze (1995, Georgian)
  • Creation Year:
    2023
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 70.87 in (180 cm)Width: 49.22 in (125 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
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  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    Paris, FR
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1087218062772

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