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| ANDRO SEMEIKO |
| Untitled 26x35cm Acrylic on canvas 2006 |
Semeiko will create an installation of a planetary system. He is planning to make a series of visceral wax sculptures in the shape
of planets presented on different height plinths in a circular group. He will produce a sculpture ‘Spaceship Nose 2007’ with a
detailed spaceship interior and figures of crusaders operating in it. On the installation’s walls, paintings will hang of “ideal
objects” which the crusader knights are seeking. Semeiko’s sculptural work employs highly skilled craftsmanship. He turns a
gigantic champagne cork into a miniature of a spaceship and embeds an ideal home with the dream garden inside a used
motorcyclist’s helmet. The longing for freedom of a utopian dream inspires his work. He creates new scenarios of science fiction
and fairy tales - juxtaposing modern consumer products to transform the idealism into miniaturised objects. To reduce work to
very small scale somehow fulfils the desire of possessing something, and the dream of reaching the impossible.
of planets presented on different height plinths in a circular group. He will produce a sculpture ‘Spaceship Nose 2007’ with a
detailed spaceship interior and figures of crusaders operating in it. On the installation’s walls, paintings will hang of “ideal
objects” which the crusader knights are seeking. Semeiko’s sculptural work employs highly skilled craftsmanship. He turns a
gigantic champagne cork into a miniature of a spaceship and embeds an ideal home with the dream garden inside a used
motorcyclist’s helmet. The longing for freedom of a utopian dream inspires his work. He creates new scenarios of science fiction
and fairy tales - juxtaposing modern consumer products to transform the idealism into miniaturised objects. To reduce work to
very small scale somehow fulfils the desire of possessing something, and the dream of reaching the impossible.
EDUCATION
2003-2006 Postgraduate Diploma, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2000-2001 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1998-2000 BA Fine Art, Utrecht School of the Arts, The Netherlands
1992-1998 Diploma Painting, Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, Georgia
EXHIBITIONS
2006
Ethereal, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London
Beauty Unrealized, PSWAR, Amsterdam
IVI, 1 Hat & Mitre Court, London
World Tea Party, Hornsey Pump House, London
Degree Show, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Extra Room, Academiegalerie, Utrecht
Another Product, Corner House, Manchester
Basement Screen, the Residence, London
Sequence, The Space, London
2005
Sequence, de Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam
Bow Festival, Space, London
Flea Market II, temporarycontemporary, London
Premiums 2005, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2004
Caution: Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003
Charlie’s Place, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Nth Art Exhibit 001, Ols & Co art space, London
2002
tent.,Gallery Podion, Amsterdam
Beautiful Tomorrows, Palix Gallery, Paris
Shine, The Lowry Gallery, Manchester
No tax - No rates, Fordham, London
2001
New Contemporaries 2001, Camden Arts Center, London and Sunderland Museum
12345, Fields Gallery, London
The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Arts, London
Tam Dam, Riverside Studios, London
Art Primeur, Pictura, Dordrecht
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Star Wars, Lauri Grove Baths, London
Malevich’s Sexual Fantacy, Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Goldsmiths 2001, Goldsmiths College, London
2000
Happy End (solo), Moira, Utrecht
Who are we?, Louka, Znojmo, Czech Republic
HKU Festival, Utrecht
Kieken, Academiegalerie, Utrecht
Warming Up, Academiegalerie, Utrecht
1999
Park of the Future, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Pasports 3, Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan, Utrecht
1998
Sotheby’s Auction ‘Operation Smile’, Moscow
Blow Up, Manezh Gallery, Moscow
Art Salon, Manezh, Moscow
Contemporary Georgian Art, Modern Art Gallery, Tbilisi
1997
Semeiko+Semeiko, Modern Art Gallery, Tbilisi
Memento Mori, Karvasla, Tbilisi
Group exp., Club “Diplomat”, Tbilisi
1996
Tbilisoba, Abanot Ubani, Tbilisi
1995
4 painters, Caucasus Painters Guild, Tbilisi
PUBLICATION
2006
Why Bother With Ikea Prints When You Could Have Your Own Art Collection?
Independent, The; London (UK); 5/29/2006
2006
bowieart www.bowieart.com
Celeste Art Prize 2006, ex. cat., London
2005
White Columns, Nork York City, www.whitecolumns.org
Learning from students, Metro Newspaper, 3 February
The state of art schools: premiums 2005, www.bbc.co.uk/collective, 11 February
2004
Shock of the art attack, Evening Standard, 3 June
Charlie's Place at Annely Juda Fine Art, ex. cat., London
London-Tbilisi-Makvaneti, by Lela Zurebiani, Rating, Georgia
2002
Shine, ex. cat., text by Alistair Robinson, Manchester
2001
New Contemporaries, ex. cat., edited by Sacha Craddock, London/Sunderland
2000
Nominations, edited by Marijke Pluimers, HKU, Utecht
Znojmo 2000, ex. cat, edited by Isis Torensma, HKU, Utrecht
1999
Dit is..., ex. cat., HKU Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
1998
Sotheby’s, ‘Operation Smile’, ex. cat., Moscow
1997
Family Semeiko, by V. Tsereteli, Arguments and Facts, April, Georgia
AWARDS
2004
The British Institution Award, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2000
Kunstanjer 2000, Prince Bernard Culture Fund, The Netherlands
Pieck Prize, The Netherland
www.androsemeiko.com
2003-2006 Postgraduate Diploma, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2000-2001 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1998-2000 BA Fine Art, Utrecht School of the Arts, The Netherlands
1992-1998 Diploma Painting, Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, Georgia
EXHIBITIONS
2006
Ethereal, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London
Beauty Unrealized, PSWAR, Amsterdam
IVI, 1 Hat & Mitre Court, London
World Tea Party, Hornsey Pump House, London
Degree Show, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Extra Room, Academiegalerie, Utrecht
Another Product, Corner House, Manchester
Basement Screen, the Residence, London
Sequence, The Space, London
2005
Sequence, de Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam
Bow Festival, Space, London
Flea Market II, temporarycontemporary, London
Premiums 2005, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2004
Caution: Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003
Charlie’s Place, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Nth Art Exhibit 001, Ols & Co art space, London
2002
tent.,Gallery Podion, Amsterdam
Beautiful Tomorrows, Palix Gallery, Paris
Shine, The Lowry Gallery, Manchester
No tax - No rates, Fordham, London
2001
New Contemporaries 2001, Camden Arts Center, London and Sunderland Museum
12345, Fields Gallery, London
The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Arts, London
Tam Dam, Riverside Studios, London
Art Primeur, Pictura, Dordrecht
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Star Wars, Lauri Grove Baths, London
Malevich’s Sexual Fantacy, Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Goldsmiths 2001, Goldsmiths College, London
2000
Happy End (solo), Moira, Utrecht
Who are we?, Louka, Znojmo, Czech Republic
HKU Festival, Utrecht
Kieken, Academiegalerie, Utrecht
Warming Up, Academiegalerie, Utrecht
1999
Park of the Future, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Pasports 3, Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan, Utrecht
1998
Sotheby’s Auction ‘Operation Smile’, Moscow
Blow Up, Manezh Gallery, Moscow
Art Salon, Manezh, Moscow
Contemporary Georgian Art, Modern Art Gallery, Tbilisi
1997
Semeiko+Semeiko, Modern Art Gallery, Tbilisi
Memento Mori, Karvasla, Tbilisi
Group exp., Club “Diplomat”, Tbilisi
1996
Tbilisoba, Abanot Ubani, Tbilisi
1995
4 painters, Caucasus Painters Guild, Tbilisi
PUBLICATION
2006
Why Bother With Ikea Prints When You Could Have Your Own Art Collection?
Independent, The; London (UK); 5/29/2006
2006
bowieart www.bowieart.com
Celeste Art Prize 2006, ex. cat., London
2005
White Columns, Nork York City, www.whitecolumns.org
Learning from students, Metro Newspaper, 3 February
The state of art schools: premiums 2005, www.bbc.co.uk/collective, 11 February
2004
Shock of the art attack, Evening Standard, 3 June
Charlie's Place at Annely Juda Fine Art, ex. cat., London
London-Tbilisi-Makvaneti, by Lela Zurebiani, Rating, Georgia
2002
Shine, ex. cat., text by Alistair Robinson, Manchester
2001
New Contemporaries, ex. cat., edited by Sacha Craddock, London/Sunderland
2000
Nominations, edited by Marijke Pluimers, HKU, Utecht
Znojmo 2000, ex. cat, edited by Isis Torensma, HKU, Utrecht
1999
Dit is..., ex. cat., HKU Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
1998
Sotheby’s, ‘Operation Smile’, ex. cat., Moscow
1997
Family Semeiko, by V. Tsereteli, Arguments and Facts, April, Georgia
AWARDS
2004
The British Institution Award, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2000
Kunstanjer 2000, Prince Bernard Culture Fund, The Netherlands
Pieck Prize, The Netherland
www.androsemeiko.com