George Bezani

George Bezani decodes the compositions of quotidian moments, altering and reorganizing them through his own visual language. Inspired by Japanese Nihonga paintings, he uses a unique, self- taught mark making technique that developed from his diverse experimentations over the past five years.

His paintings convey the fragility of our modern world, with slow, meditative brush movements and bold coloured marks on the canvas. The works are a dialogue between the painter and the moments of reality that he reinterprets. Bezani draws inspiration from personal and collected photographs, collages, sketches and images.

In his latest series of works _TenShen_, Bezani explores the antagonistic impact of technology. Its vigorous, authoritative power pulls societies apart, and it remains incompatible with lived reality. It also provides the possibility for extreme escapism and debilitates our capacity to collectively navigate the future. In these works, characters are digitally infused with cybernated dopamine or oxytocin, ephemeral figures with the shadow of doubt are combined with gadgets, and ambiguous vast network landscapes are filled with desolation and tension.

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Absorbed by the postures and poses of contemporary bodies, George Bezani observes a human form that is no longer autonomous, but rather fused with devices, displaying homo-apparatus symbiosis. He delves into the influences and consequences of screen culture, while exploring the human condition. What is the purpose of a life lived on screen? Bezani’s work captures unconcealed moments of intimacy, exposed vulnerability and uncertain self-esteem. He questions the 21st-century human’s curatorial capacity, dedication and execution of plans, goals, chores or tasks with or without the security of the proposed, simplified algorithms. These bodies seem to have a perpetual dependency of daily duties, bonds and life at large on cybernated data.

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Bezani observes an ongoing tension between a digitally fabricated, designed and often custom-made screen presence versus the physical, tactile experience of the world as is. His work blurs the lines of existing formats, finding arcane edges.

The artist detects and uncovers the layers of techno fatigue and social amnesia which the contemporary human body experiences, by painting, mostly in color palette from CT scan images, using this as a metaphor for his practice of body examination.

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His work proposes the human figure as a voyeur and the selector of future communication mechanisms. He brings together labor-intensive craftsmanship with an automated process: a quick splash of techniques, metaphors and often inconsequential symbols.

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Born in Tbilisi, Georgia 1987
Lives and works in New York City, USA