Levan Manjavidze

An Irritation of Spirit
Once upon a time I entered in a cave. There, some multi-layered portions of space were encountering flat surfaces.
I saw pieces of bodies, bits of walls, sections of plane colors, smooth fading members, shiny chromatic organs, worm-like faces, jumping elements, lions, hearts, fingers, plants, separated components, married substances, crying children, clothes, mixed grounds, waves.
Flat Man, a.k.a Devil Doll, a.k.a Slutty Penis-Drama king of Heart-Baby Face Killer, likes to use the word ambivalence. Or ambivalent.
I think it s a word to make sense out of our general and inevitable confusion, in the perceptions we have from the world. (Generally words do)
He brings together an image, in a dissected image. As function body and brain, as eye and hand... Well yes: it s a painting.
The color shifts here, the subject is stuck there. And over here, and there, an alive-eye in a tinted-block does not move of an inch.
Later, there will be blood. Later, there will be love.
The symbols appear just like the faces, stage after stage, layer after layer: mazed. It s a puzzle.
Representing pieces of the world, maybe as a cohabitation of worlds.
Find an impossible harmony.
Is it faith? Is it magic? Hope is mag...

2003-06
Utrecht Academy of Arts / Netherlands
2000-01
Florence Academy of Arts / Ital
1994-99
Tbilisi State University / Georgia

2021
Puer Aeternus - GUGA KOT Studio - Tbilisi
Constant Flow - Oxygen Biennial - Tbilisi
2020
The Other Face - State Silk Museum - Tbilisi Digital Diary - Tbilisi Online Bienalle - Georgia
2019
Visual AIDs - Metro Pictures - New York
All in one - A projected-only loop group show- Chiari
2018
Anti-Matter - Quick Check project space - Berlin
Film Stripping - Centrum - 48 St.Nk. - Berlin
2017
Future Memory - Fest I Nova - Akhalkalaki
Zwischen GinSinn und Unsinn - Schillerpalais - Berlin
Blanc Noir - Green House - Berlin
2016
Offene Ateliers - NeukÃllner Produktion - Berlin
Mobiles Kino - City Visions - Jena
PUER & The Priestess is Present - Stattberlin- Berlin
2015
From the edge - Sikkema Jenkins & Co. - New York
Friends with Books - Hamburger Bahnhof - Berlin
2014
Faces - Taschengeld - 48 S.N. - Berlin
Ricegreen - Stattberlin - Berlin
2013
Identify - Cellar Gallery - Berlin
Shuffle Show - Institut fur Alles MÃgliche - Berlin
2012
Kaum III - Raum - Berlin
Art & Neuroscience - ECKE Gallery - Berlin
Scanned Scapes - Rotebete - Berlin
Solaris Project - Who is Frank? - AntjeÃklesund - Berlin
2011
Face Frame - Sameheads - Berlin
The Venture - Gallery Kaleidoskop - Berlin
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