SculptureCenter opens an exhibition of works by Tolia Astakhishvili
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SculptureCenter opens an exhibition of works by Tolia Astakhishvili
Tolia Astakhishvili, neighbours places, 2023. Archival ink on paper. 8.3 x 11.6 inches (21 x 29.5 cm). Courtesy the artist and LC Queisser, Tbilisi.



LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- For more than two decades, Tolia Astakhishvili has worked across sculpture, drawing, painting, sound, and video. At scales that both augment and seemingly disappear into gallery spaces, Tolia’s environments posit architecture as an unfixed and transforming entity shaped by those who live through it. At the same time, her sculpture attends to disavowed space and the overlapping markers of use, authorship, and social position that produce different settings of decay.

Writer Kirsty Bell has described Tolia’s installations as a form of “simultaneity – whereby a space exists as a plan, a model, a projected vision, a memory and a real place.” [1] Tolia’s work unsettles a building’s ability to designate and distribute its own space, instead overriding it with new structures, layers of used things, and other detritus. To this performed architecture Tolia introduces a vocabulary of figures extending from her ongoing drawing practice, borrowed artworks, and audio compositions.

At SculptureCenter, Tolia Astakhishvili: between father and mother considers sculpture as a form of sorting, and, by extension, choosing and dividing. In service of this idea, Tolia recasts SculptureCenter’s ground floor gallery spaces as a channeling machine, rigging up two large debris chutes, a major new commission made possible by Valeria Napoleone XX SculptureCenter (VNXXSC), that suggest the mechanism of judgment realized through Tolia’s monumental, assemblage-laden installations. Throughout the exhibition, Tolia integrates works from different disciplines by collaborators Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Kirsty Bell, Katinka Bock, Dylan Peirce, and James Richards. Read as singular artworks, these contributions stand in contrast to the piles of secondhand items, industrial parts, refuse, and construction materials that Tolia meanwhile transforms into representations of found situations: partial recreations of spatial, psychological, and object conditions that might exist both here and elsewhere.

Self-effacing yet monumental and accumulative, between father and mother performs a problem of discernment familiar to art and life: how to compare unlike things, and how to reconcile incomparable experiences as they play out in the present and return from the past.

Tolia Astakhishvili: between father and mother is the artist’s first exhibition in the United States. The exhibition includes a new work co-commissioned by SculptureCenter, New York and Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam, to be acquired by the Collection Hartwig Art Foundation. Promised gift to the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed / Rijkscollectie Netherlands.

[1] From Kirsty Bell’s “I. Plans and Drawings” published in the exhibition guide for Tolia Astakhishvili: The First Finger, Bonner Kunstverein, Mar 25–Jul 30, 2023.










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