From: Roundup #4: The Best Artists This Week on artreview.com
Posted by artreview.com on 11 March 2008
By James Westcott
Two little series of particularly gorgeous paintings landed in artreview.com recently like gifts. One of them came from the Irakli Bugianishvili, a young artist from Georgia (in eastern Europe that is, not the deep south), now based in Düsseldorf:
It looks like Bugianishvili has painted an old family snapshot (maybe it's not even his own family; the painting has the anonymity and longing of a found photo). Other recent works of his are also photographic in composition and spirit (though they're not photorealistic in technique), but they accelerate the technique into realm of cinema: in Dream, it looks like the Figure is projected – hovering – on the canvas over a brooding background.
The Article: http://www.artreview.com/profiles/blogs/roundup-4-the-best-artists
