Alexander (Sandro) Antadze was born in 1972 in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 he graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts with a degree in architecture. Alexander Antadze has been greatly influenced by the culture of his motherland, his artworks are invariably imbued with a sense of sincerity, generosity, groundedness, authenticity and kindness. Apart from his native country, his heartfelt paintings have been showcased in different countries throughout the world – at the ‘Love’ Gallery Suncontemporary in Seoul, in Hong Kong, at ‘Arvest’ gallery in Kazakhstan, in United Kingdom, Switzerland and France, at the ‘Georgian Artists Show’ in Kuwait. Some of Antadze’s personal shows were held the Embassies of Georgia in Netherlands and Israel, and at the Amsterdam’s ‘Artstable’.
The artist discusses symbolic interconnection between nature and human beings, our shared fragility, symbolism of man-made objects that serve as anchors preserving our fleeting lives, the notion of placelessness as opposed to sociocultural context and the difference between instinctual and intellectual.
Animals take centre stage in many of Antadze’s purposefully naïve paintings as they represent our intuitive-instinctive aspect that cannot be custom tuned, but can be hindered and silenced. Antadze’s depicted animals are guides, ancestral beings and totems; they re-initiate into the spheres of existence that contemporary humans, due to traumas and social conditioning, easily neglect and disconnect with. Antadze’s art lovingly invites audiences to reconnect with the uncorrupted free inner-child. The artist constructs a nurturing safe space; his art motivates to take off masks and abandon facades, making a step towards a sort of self-retrieval.
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