Andro Wekua

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ANDRO WEKUA: 2000 WORDS
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Gary Carrion-Murayari.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9789609931465 | US $22.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2013
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ANDRO WEKUA: PINK WAVE HUNTER, 3 VOLUMES
Edited by Rein Wolfs, Gerald Matt, Andrea Bellini.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865609618 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 6/30/2011
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ANDRO WEKUA: WORKSHOP REPORT
Text by Alessandro Baricco.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865606488 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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ANDRO WEKUA: LADY LUCK
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829518 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 8/1/2008
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ANDRO WEKUA: IF THERE EVER WAS ONE
Edited by Andro Wekua. Text by Dieter Schwarz, Rein Wolfs.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905701869 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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Andro Wekua

Andro Wekua: 2000 Words

Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Gary Carrion-Murayari.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art

Using painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture and film, Georgian artist Andro Wekua channels personal memories and political history into veiled narratives that vacillate between the ultra-real and dreamlike fictions. With an essay by the New Museum's Gary Carrion-Murayari, this book presents the wide range of the artist's work over a six-year period.

Andro Wekua: Pink Wave Hunter, 3 Volumes

Edited by Rein Wolfs, Gerald Matt, Andrea Bellini.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Georgian artist Andro Wekua (born 1977) merges images found in magazines or old photo albums with painting to create multilayered, kaleidoscopic collages. The design for this three-volume catalogue is based on American horror and science-fiction magazines, reflecting recent themes developing in the artist's video and installation work.

Andro Wekua: Workshop Report

Text by Alessandro Baricco.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Over the last few years, the young Georgian artist Andro Wekua has broken on the international art scene with enigmatic installations made of sculptures, collages, films and paintings. Reflecting both the melancholy of a childhood in a post-Communist country and a tragic sense of history, in this artist's book Wekua explores the polysemy of the images and signs of his generation in large-scale installations.

Andro Wekua: Lady Luck

Published by JRP|Ringier

Designed by the artist, who grew up in war-torn Georgia, this volume presents new sculptures, paintings and collages that combine sweet nostalgia with a masochistic relish for history's decay. Doppelgängers of the artist as a child seem to be blinded or burned, pointed noses grow from models' heads and figures walk through foreboding landscapes.

Andro Wekua: If There Ever Was One

Edited by Andro Wekua. Text by Dieter Schwarz, Rein Wolfs.
Published by JRP|Ringier

If There Ever Was One is full of collages, in the widest sense of the word: Andro Wekua assembles objects, old and new, discarded and valued, in installations, paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos and texts. His ominous tableaux of childlike figures lost in ceramic landscapes combine a sweet nostalgia for youth with an almost masochistic relish for history's decay. Those kid-doppelgangers harbor a tragic fragility, often signaled by blindness or burns, evoking the displacement of the refugee and internalized angst of those growing up witness to national strife, as Wekua did in Soviet and post-Soviet Georgia. His soulful and enigmatic imagery recreates an abstracted vision of that history, and imagines a refuge. As seen at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York and in the Saatchi Gallery, London, the Rubbell Collection, Miami and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.