Galerie Molitor

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• Nika Kutateladze’s Acacia Bloom loosely tells the story of the myopic focus on fences of a handful of men who remain in a depopulated village amidst an impending—or really ongoing—landslide. Kutateladze spent five years living alongside these holdouts and the largely abandoned, ramshackle houses that populate the staggering beauty of the mountainous landscape. [/PARA_DATE_HINT] Kutateladze was initially compelled to start painting because of his impression that in this depopulated village any sense of exteriority eroded to reveal a base human nature. As such, his paintings begin as portraits of these holdouts, evolving until a deeper or more instinctual form of recognition materializes. Indeed as his own painterly project has developed over the past six years—he studied architecture, then worked primarily in sculpture and installation before starting to paint in 2020—he has continued to probe the possibilities of how to strip back the surface of a face. He approximates such porosity in his portraits as orifices hollow into a ghostly pallor and
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  Nika Kutateladze: Acacia Bloom

  Until 14 Nov 2026

  
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