Artificial Flowers
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Independent artist
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Contemporary artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Works in painting and mixed media.
作品の注目ポイント
Artificial Flowers: Residue is a new work from Gela Mikava’s Artificial Flowers series, created on reclaimed Soviet-era cotton fabric.
The original floral pattern remains visible beneath layers of paint, but only in fragments. Parts of the fabric are covered, erased, and transformed, creating a tension between decoration and disappearance.
For Mikava, the fabric is not simply a support. It is a pre-existing surface carrying traces of domestic life and cultural memory. By painting over and partially revealing its original floral imagery, he transforms a familiar decorative pattern into an unstable landscape of color, texture, memory, and loss.
The work explores the persistence of images and memories after the world that produced them has changed. What remains is neither the original decoration nor a complete erasure, but a residue between the two.
The artwork is one of a kind and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
アーティストになった理由
Art became a way to explore personal and collective memory, material history and experiences that remain present even when they are no longer visible.
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GELA MIKAVA is a contemporary artist from Georgia, based in Tbilisi. His practice combines architectural precision with artistic freedom, using reclaimed Soviet-era materials as both surface and historical archive.
