Tamuna Sirbiladze. Not Cool but Compelling

A beautifully illustrated survey of the work of an artist whose recurring themes were the human body, sexuality and vulnerability, and the male image in art history. "Not Cool but Compelling" is both the pithy title of a large abstract work executed in oil crayon on canvas by the artist and of the first institutional solo exhibition of her oeuvre. With a highly expressive approach and anthropomorphic visual language, she takes up recurring themes such as the human body, sexuality, and vulnerability, challenges the connotations of the male image in art history and references artists such as Vincent van Gogh, André Breton, and Martin Kippenberger in her works. Published with four different covers wrapped in black PVC. Text: Sergey Harutoonian, Sophie von Hellermann, Magdalena Nieslony, Stella Rollig.