Andro Wekua

This booklet was published by Gladstone in 2006, accompanying Wekua's first exhibition with Gladstone, which was also his solo New York gallery debut. 

 

Wekua translates fragmented abstractions of memory into the narrative cues that inform his work. The pain of war and effects of loss burgeon on the surface of his work as he exorcises the conflicted emotions surrounding his youth in war-torn Georgia. The feeling of dispossession is palpable in his work, giving the feeling of homemade relics capturing both the sadness and joy he experienced during his childhood. Within somewhat ominous tableaux of child-like figures lost amongst ceramic landscapes recalling forests and oceans, Wekua’s unique vocabulary combines a sweet nostalgia for youth with an almost masochistic relish for history’s decay.