The Bourgeois Pig is delighted to announce an exhibition of works by Georgian artist Irakli Bugianishvili. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, now pursuing a second degree in Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, this young artist is perhaps one of the most promising painters of his generation. Irakli Bugianishivili's practice examines the state of the individual in society by creating a mystical world of memory that at any moment could be severed from it's past.
 
Beyond Memory relates directly to the artists attempts to mediate the spectators relationship with his images. By establishing a non-traditional distance through the utilization of a series of visual techniques, the artist hopes to illuminate the sacred and impenetrable nature of the past and its tendency to alienate. In Abandoned 2008 drips pour down the canvas performing as bars, which roughly blur and encase the clarity of a decrepit abandoned house set within a vast and empty plain. This work presents a vantage point not only of solitude, but of hope, and a nostalgic dream of what once was.
 
The process of creation by subtraction is how Bugianishvili chooses to communicate with his audience. He does not attempt to prevent us from entering the image, but removes enough of the tangible from it to allow us to project our own narrative rather than being forced to contemplate the artist's intentions. This tactic is never more present than in the Beyond Memory 2008 series in which his subjects are so subtly undefined that they almost appear as ghosts floating within their self-made environments. The artist chooses his personas carefully and with the candor of a poet seeking to reveal and conceal simultaneously.