ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary presents the latest works by Geneva based artist Koka Ramisvhili who constantly fathoms the border areas of different artistic genres. For this show, the artist specifically designed an overall installation that includes current black-and-white photographs and «sculptural paintings». «Independent Organism II» is an exhibition within an exhibiton, an insert into the current show «Trouvailles» uniting paintings by David Reed and Richard Allen Morris. Due to the wide interest this show will be extended until the end of March 2017.

What is it that makes a picture a picture? How do different artistic genres relate in this matter? And how can the borderlines between these categories be eliminated? These are the questions that have been playing a key role within the work of Koka Ramishvili (*1957 in Tbilisi, GE, lives in Geneva, CH) from the very beginning. Ever since, he skillfully acts in different media such as video, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation.

His last solo show at Häusler Contemporary Zurich took place three years ago. The gallery now presents an insight into the artist’s current creation. For this exhibition, Ramishvili arranged an exciting overall installation consisting of selected new photographs and objects.

The small wooden blocks from the «Lost Land» series can be described as «sculptural paintings». With these works, Ramishvili tests landscape painting as an abstract, atmospheric fragment – in the technique of the Flemish Old Masters. In his current black and white photographs, he confronts opposing formal concepts such as contour and blurriness, still life and motion recording. The very poetic images that result from this approach seem to capture the structure of light and depict painterly qualities of photography, pushing the static medium to the limits of the filmic one.

With Koka Ramishvili’s presentation «Independent Organism II», Häusler Contemporary Zürich again puts to test variations of the traditional idea of exhibitions. Ramishvili’s installation is an insert into the show «Trouvailles» which raised a lot of interest and therefore will be extended until the end of March 2017. It unites works from different periods by David Reed and Richard Allen Morris.

Koka Ramishvili got worldwide attention with his contribution to the Venice Biennial in 2009. He was presented in institutions such as the Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilis (2011), the MAMCO in Geneva (2004) or the M HKA in Antwerp (2011). Works by Koka Ramishvili are represented in several major collections such as the one of Canton and City of Geneva, of M HKA Antwerp, the one of Ars Electronica in Linz and of Die Mobiliar in Bern.