ArtForum // Tamuna Sirbiladze
Presented in three vignettes, Tamuna Sirbiladze’s exhibition “Sculpting in Color” eschewed the vibrant palette, scale, and imagery most readily associated with the late artist’s work—typically energetic, abstracted female figures caught menstruating, vomiting, shitting, or in other moments of banal excretion. Curated by Nina Kintsurashvili, the show focused instead on a contemplative selection of smaller-scale, abstract compositions that Sirbiladze made between 2005 and 2014 on her annual summer visits to see her family in Georgia.
Image Credit: Tamuna Sirbiladze, untitled, 2005–2006, gouache and oil pastel on paper, 24 × 33 1⁄2".
