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.

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