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Parkett Vol. 88
Quote from Parkett
"Maybe the problem today is that memory is no longer a question of nostalgic reveries into one's past triggered by a single photograph, a smell, or a taste. Proust's tea with Madeleine has been displaced by the internet where memory is now located in cloud servers, no longer grounded in one place or even in one's mind but adrift on the ether of digital bandwidth."
Douglas Fogle, Parkett No. 88, 2011
Additional Quote
“Andro Wekua’s installations, paintings, works on paper, which incorporate collage, pencil, and pen on photocopies, including his object for Parkett “Black Sea Lamp”, often refer to the displacement of refugees, and his own memories growing up in war-torn Georgia.” -Artspace
"Black Sea Lamp", 2011 (for Parkett 88)
Color glass lamp with metal base,
conceived and designed by the artist,
glass colored and bent by glassworks GmbH,
casing cut from laquered steel sheet,
illuminated with 2 LED bulbs, electrical cable,
fabricated and assembled by Kunstbetrieb AG Münchenstein, Switzerland,
7 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8” (18,3 x 13,5 x 8 cm),
Ed. 35/XX, signed and numbered certificate
Read a Parkett text on Andro Wekua
Parkett Vol. 88
Quote from Parkett
"Maybe the problem today is that memory is no longer a question of nostalgic reveries into one's past triggered by a single photograph, a smell, or a taste. Proust's tea with Madeleine has been displaced by the internet where memory is now located in cloud servers, no longer grounded in one place or even in one's mind but adrift on the ether of digital bandwidth."
Douglas Fogle, Parkett No. 88, 2011
Additional Quote
“Andro Wekua’s installations, paintings, works on paper, which incorporate collage, pencil, and pen on photocopies, including his object for Parkett “Black Sea Lamp”, often refer to the displacement of refugees, and his own memories growing up in war-torn Georgia.” -Artspace
"Black Sea Lamp", 2011 (for Parkett 88)
Color glass lamp with metal base,
conceived and designed by the artist,
glass colored and bent by glassworks GmbH,
casing cut from laquered steel sheet,
illuminated with 2 LED bulbs, electrical cable,
fabricated and assembled by Kunstbetrieb AG Münchenstein, Switzerland,
7 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8” (18,3 x 13,5 x 8 cm),
Ed. 35/XX, signed and numbered certificate
Artist Document
Andro Wekua's first sketch for his "Black Sea Lamp" for Parkett 88, with front and side views.
The second image shows the group of 5 "Black Sea Lamps" on view at the Dojima River Biennale in Osaka, Japan, 2013. The exhibition's theme was water.
Artist Contribution to Parkett 100/101
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