ARTIST:

Tamuna Sirbiladze

Map 1 (Toga Could Not Remember)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1 (La Femme Infidele)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1 (Druges)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1 (Horse Shits On Their Roses)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 (Untitled)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 (Drug Picnic)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 (When His Boldness Reflected Twilight On Her Hair)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 3 – Van Gogh
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 – Andro
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 3 (Being Left Their)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4 (Adidas Still Life In The Tennis Court)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4 (Got To Much LA Sun)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 (Andro)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 3
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 3 (Van Gogh)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 3 (Pickled Ass)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1 – Horse Shits On Their Roses
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1 (Four parts)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1 (Four parts)
Tamuna Sirbiladze

Born in Georgia and based in Vienna, Sirbiladze could be said to be channelling some of the Viennese Actionists’ subversive spirit. She paints unromanticised images of faceless women naked, bleeding, defecating and vomiting, a kind of scrapbook of acts that are not particularly taboo now but aren’t the most obvious subjects for artists to explore in their works. There’s a raw frankness to her characters that goes beyond their crude, puerile figuration; they at once conflate the imagery of pornography and primeval ritual within scenes that hint at the diaristic and at a wide range of emotional states.

Map 1 – La Femme Infidele
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1- Toga Could Not Remember
Tamuna Sirbiladze
The Husband Is No Wall
Tamuna Sirbiladze
The Husband Is No Wall
Tamuna Sirbiladze

Tamuna Sirbiladze’s paintings, fast, expressionistic canvases depicting abstract shapes and naked female figures in the midst of bodily functions, convey an intimate, unavoidable physicality.

Map 4 – Kotzen
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4 (Five parts)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4 (Five parts)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4 – In Sahara
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4 – Adidas Still Life In The Tennis Court
Tamuna Sirbiladze

The exact meaning of these arresting works is left open, blurred and made even more ambiguous by their often poetic titles. Sirbiladze is also the widow of artist Franz West, and the two often collaborated on projects.

Text by Lupe Nùñez-Fernández

Map 4 – Got Too Much LA Sun
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4 – Suicide Painting
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 4 – Suicide Painting
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 3 (Three parts)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 3 (Three parts)
Tamuna Sirbiladze

Map 3 – Being Left There is a more modest depiction of a figure kissing the air to the right, but more sinisterly holding a cartoonish, hot pink bone behind her back, like a club. Map 2 and Map 3 include unflinching paintings of a woman’s buttocks during the act of defecation and penetration, across which text has been painted in bright neon colours, like graffiti.

Map 3 – Pickled Ass
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 3 – Being Left Their
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 (Four parts)
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 (Four parts)
Tamuna Sirbiladze

There is always something ordinary, something humorous, something melancholy and something sinister in her paintings. Map 4 – Got Too Much LA Sun shows the body of a naked woman on a beach, completely sunburnt and crimson (even her head and pubic hair), bending over an abstract shape with arched arms and legs, but still wistfully looking over to the blue waves and the sky on the horizon.

Map 2 – Drug Picnic
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 – When His Boldness Reflected Twilight On Her Hair
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 2 – Untitled
Tamuna Sirbiladze
Map 1 – Druges
Tamuna Sirbiladze
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