Artists: Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, David Brodsky, Angus Leadly-Brown, Andro Eradze, David Kakabadze, Keti Kapanadze, Maia Naveriani, Koka Ramishvili
Exhibition title: Danarti – Archive and more
Venue: E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi, Georgia
Date: April 10 – May 5, 2024
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi
E.A. Shared Space is thrilled to host first exhibition of Danarti Zine.
The non-profit series of publications, was originally founded by Elene Abashidze, Ani Chorgolashvili and Natuta Bagrationi in 2011 as part of a project organized by the same group of curators at the CCA Tbilisi. Danarti, which means an additional document first served as an alternative to an exhibition catalogue. Stemming from the traditions of Samizdats – a various self-published zines, magazines and publications of Modernist and early Soviet times, Danarti replicates a form of a newspaper. Since 2016 Danarti’s editors’ team has been joined by Irine Jorjadze and is being generously support-ed by Kunsthalle Zurich.
Since its conception, the zine serves as a curatorial platform in the first place. It is a collective curato-rial practice, which researches a topic per issue, having three main directions of Art, Architecture and Poetry from Modernist,Soviet and Contemporary times. The series are inter-disciplinary and for an extensive period of time, was the only bilingual publishing on culture and critical thought from Geor-gia.While the limited number of issues can be found at a various book-shops and libraries of Georgia and Europe, all of the issues are distributed online for free.
The group exhibition Danarti – Archive and more introduces the full archive of the series, alongside to a selection of works by Georgian artists published through-out the years.
David Brodsky, Untitled (After Budka), 2024, Tin Plate covered in hot oil, Site-specific installation, Size variesDanarti Archive and More, 2024, exhibition view, E.A. Shared Space, TbilisiKeti Kapanadze, Feel your inner sensitive ephemeral elusive changeable unconstant ungessed messy point, 1993, aluminium, size variesKeti Kapanadze, Feel your inner sensitive ephemeral elusive changeable unconstant ungessed messy point, 1993, aluminium, size variesKeti Kapanadze, Feel your inner sensitive ephemeral elusive changeable unconstant ungessed messy point, 1993, aluminium, size variesAngus Leadley Brown, Tbilabreshumi, 2021, Digital print on hahnemühle photo rag paper, passpartout, wooden frame, 71 x 87 cm.Danarti Archive and More, 2024, exhibition view, E.A. Shared Space, TbilisiKetuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Okeefe ́s Shells My Son, 2022, Two archival pigment prints on screenfilm in a box frame, 30.6 × 22.7 cm. Courtesy the artist and LC QueisserKetuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Okeefe ́s Shells My Son, 2022, Two archival pigment prints on screenfilm in a box frame, 30.6 × 22.7 cm. Courtesy the artist and LC QueisserDanarti Archive and More, 2024, exhibition view, E.A. Shared Space, TbilisiDanarti Archive and More, 2024, exhibition view, E.A. Shared Space, TbilisiMaia Naveriani, Fucking Women Today, 2019, Inkjet Print, Acrylic, color pencil on sythetic canvas, 215 x 136 cmDavid Brodsky, Untitled (After Budka), 2024, Tin Plate covered in hot oil, Site-specific installation, Size variesDanarti Archive and More, 2024, exhibition view, E.A. Shared Space, TbilisiDanarti Archive and More, 2024, exhibition view, E.A. Shared Space, TbilisiDanarti Archive and More, 2024, exhibition view, E.A. Shared Space, TbilisiDavid Kakabadze, Sketch for the project Genesis of Georgian Ornament, Kakhuli Monastery, 1930’s, 21 x 30 cm. Courtesy of David Kakabadze FoundationDavid Kakabadze, Sketch for the project Genesis of Georgian Ornament, Kakhuli Monastery, 1930’s, 21 x 30 cm. Courtesy of David Kakabadze FoundationAndro Eradze, Bird of Prey, 2020, digital print, metal fence, metal spikes, 66 x 90 x 4 cm. Installation View; Courtesy of artist and SpazioA Gallery.Andro Eradze, Bird of Prey, 2020, digital print, metal fence, metal spikes, 66 x 90 x 4 cm. Installation View; Courtesy of artist and SpazioA Gallery.Koka Ramishvili, War From My Window, 1991 – 1992, Series of Twelve Photographs, 05:15 min.
