IMPRINT #9

 

From December 18 to January 18, the Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art invites you to the International hand printing festival.

 

The 9-th edition of the International Handmade-Printing Festival returns to Tbilisi with a large-scale exhibition that connects ancient printmaking traditions with contemporary digital and experimental practices. 

This year’s theme, IMPRINT # 9, researches how handcrafted printing process transforms in contemporary technological environment and coexists with algorithmic forms and hybrid technologies

 

Participating Countries, Artists & Curators:

The festival brings together artists from Georgia, Estonia, Japan, and China, presenting a wide range of works from serigraphy to kinetic-acoustic installations, analog dialogues, and multimedia collaborations.

GEORGIA — Imprint # 9 - Serigraphy / Silk-Screen Printing. Curators: Nana Kirmelashvili, George Kekelidze

Artists: Mari Ataneli, Tato Akhalkatsishvili, Lia Bagrationi, Maya Baratashvili, Maka Batiashvili, Uta Bekaia, Mikheil Gogava, Alexei Dubinski, Ekaterine Torthlaze, Kako Topuria, Roko Iremashvili, Luka Lazar/Lasareishvili, Irakli Lomidze, Konstantine Mindadze, Irakli Nassidze, Guela Patiachvili, Elene Rakviashvili, Tinatin Tskhadadze, Gogi Qatsarava, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Shako Khrikuli.

CHINA – Qiao Qi

ESTONIA — Analog Dialogues - Curator: Temur Khvingia / OKAPI Gallery

Artists: Temur Hvingia — My Colchis: In the Footsteps of the Golden Fleece

            Erik Alalooga — Sound, Technique, and Moving Structures (kinetic-acoustic installation)

            Toomas Kuusing — Ordinary Worlds

JAPAN - Artist: Ichiro Kikuta, Supported by the Embassy of Japan in Georgia

The festival also presents collaborative multimedia projects created together with contemporary media artists.