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-Willem De Kooning
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-Frida Kahlo
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-Alberto Giacometti
-Salvador Dalí
-Auguste Rodin
-Mark Rothko
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-Richard Serra
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-Pierre Bonnard
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
-Max Ernst
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-Marc Chagall
-Gerhard Richter
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-Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
-Frank Stella
-Georg Baselitz
-Francis Picabia
-Jenny Saville
-Dan Flavin
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-Anselm Kiefer
-Matthew Barney
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-Brice Marden
-Maurizio Cattelan
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-Karel Appel
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-Alexander Archipenko
-Anthony Caro
-Richard Hamilton
-Clyfford Still
-Luc Tuymans
-Claes Oldenburg

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Andro Wekua art

Andro Wekua


Works by Andro Wekua in Paintwork


Andro Wekua

Covered

2006
collage, silver foil, tissue paper, color pencil and felt pen on illustration
36.6 x 48.2cm

 

Works by Andro Wekua in Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture

Andro Wekua

Sunset
(and 4 details)

2008
Glazed ceramic, metal framework, steel scaffolding
500 x 800 x 82 cm


























 

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Andro Wekua, Sunset

Andro Wekua, Sunset

Andro Wekua, Sunset

Andro Wekua, Sunset

Andro Wekua, Sunset

 
Andro Wekua

Black Sea Surfer

2004
installation in 7 parts with 3 collages, colour pencil, pencil and felt pen on paper. 4 fabrics(velours)
175 x 200 x 265 (Overall 3.5 x 8m)


























 

Andro Wekua, Black Wardrobe

Andro Wekua, Black Sea Surfer

Andro Wekua, Black Sea Surfer

Andro Wekua, Black Sea Surfer

 

Through his photographs and sculptures, Andro Wekua pieces together fragmented fictions pictorially representing no-where worlds of mystery and intrigue. Born in Georgia and living in Europe, Wekua often bases his work on his childhood memories, his hometown now a prohibited area. Black Sea Surfer straddles both Eastern and Western aesthetic: its geometric layout and high contrast photography resembles Communist design, while at the same time conveying sense of 60s chic and b-movie kitsch. His collaged images give cinematic flair, providing potential cast, setting, and narrative for viewers’ interpretation, subtly entwining their personal references with his own.
 

 


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