{"id":3557,"date":"2013-12-09T17:52:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2015-07-15T15:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:10:46","slug":"the-last-fugue-played-by-thea-djordjadze-currently-at-francesca-kaufmann-in-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/09\/the-last-fugue-played-by-thea-djordjadze-currently-at-francesca-kaufmann-in-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"The last Fugue played by Thea Djordjadze is at Francesca Kaufmann, Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3557 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/09\/the-last-fugue-played-by-thea-djordjadze-currently-at-francesca-kaufmann-in-milan\/_20a5124\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20A5124.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3558\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3558'>\n\t\t\t\tThea Djordjadze Untitled, 2013 steel, foam (14 benches) variable dimensions. Oxymoron Grey &#8211; Courtesy the artist; Spruth Magers, Berlin; and kaufmann repetto, Milano.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/09\/the-last-fugue-played-by-thea-djordjadze-currently-at-francesca-kaufmann-in-milan\/_20a5232\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20A5232.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3559\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3559'>\n\t\t\t\tThea Djordjadze Untitled, 2013 paint on plaster, carpet, glass (framed) 34,5 x 48,2 x 4,8 cm. Oxymoron Grey &#8211; Courtesy the artist; Spruth Magers, Berlin; and kaufmann repetto, Milano.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/09\/the-last-fugue-played-by-thea-djordjadze-currently-at-francesca-kaufmann-in-milan\/_20a5263\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20A5263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3560\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3560'>\n\t\t\t\tUntitled, 2013 steel, paint 60 x 34 x 42 cm; 48 x 33,5 cm. Oxymoron Grey &#8211; Courtesy the artist; Spruth Magers, Berlin; and kaufmann repetto, Milano.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/09\/the-last-fugue-played-by-thea-djordjadze-currently-at-francesca-kaufmann-in-milan\/dscn7416\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSCN7416.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3562\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3562'>\n\t\t\t\tUntitled, 2013 carpet, paint; paint on plaster, carpet, glass (framed), 203 x 67 x 36,5 cm\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/09\/the-last-fugue-played-by-thea-djordjadze-currently-at-francesca-kaufmann-in-milan\/dscn7422\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSCN7422.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3563\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3563'>\n\t\t\t\tThea Djordjadze Untitled, 2013 steel, foam (14 benches) variable dimensions. Detail.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/09\/the-last-fugue-played-by-thea-djordjadze-currently-at-francesca-kaufmann-in-milan\/dscn7426\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSCN7426.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3565\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3565'>\n\t\t\t\tUntitled, 2013 acrylic paint, paper, glue on plaster (framed) 34,5 x 48,3 x 3,8 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cThe title is part of the sculpture, and I really care about it\u201d declared Thea Djordjadze to a journalist in 2012, in occasion of her solo show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Australia. Nevertheless, all of the artworks exhibited in her current solo show &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaufmannrepetto.com\/thea-djordjadze-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxymoron Grey<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0at Francesca Kaufmann in Milan are untitled. What does it mean? The artist&#8217;s answer would probably be as simple as&#8230; it does mean nothing. Yes, nothingness, that is the point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tradition to which this evasive 42 years old Georgian artist living in Berlin is firmly rooted in are the Seventies \u2013 somewhere in-between anti form and Arte Povera \u2013, the same tradition which her friend and colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/22\/lorenzo-lotto-and-information-based-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Bove<\/a> belongs to, even if in a more predictable way. Art is an objective matter, in its arranged-found objects, in its \u201cdimension and orientation\u201d as well as in its capability of \u201creorganizing\u201d time and space; all of these, naturally, verbal formula to generate the abstract. <a href=\"http:\/\/theartpriest.com\/?i=51a8a7da\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhat makes an idea become an artwork?\u201d <\/a>we asked her during the last Venice Biennial, while she was literally hand painting a wall of the Georgia Pavilion at the Arsenale \u2013 something very similar to the painted window now at Francesca Kaufmann. Firmly she answered: \u201csome kind of collision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As it occurs with certain types of artworks by Rosmarie Trockel \u2013 her former teacher at the Staatliche Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf and then a close friend of the artist \u2013 the observer who looks at Djordjaze&#8217;s artworks expecting to find an answer of any kind will most likely get lost in an annoying sense of frustration. He will bounce off the patchy and uncorrelated surfaces like a fly against a closed window. But as soon as he gives up any expectation, he will eventually see these always singular structures attracting the space around, in a very familiar way. Why familiar? Because Djordjadze&#8217;s work follows up a precise tradition and starve to be part of it. Thus, which song or kind of music is better comparable with your art? \u201cFugue\u201d she replies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe title is part of the sculpture, and I really care about it\u201d declared Thea Djordjadze to a journalist in 2012, in occasion of her solo show at the Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[441,1490,1489],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-carol-bove","tag-rosmarie-trockel","tag-thea-djordjadze"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}