Goga Kuvt

Goga Kuvt

Check out his website at : www.gogasart.com

Artist Statement

Goga Kuvt’s oil and acrylic paintings on canvas depict with marvelous precision and bold coloration the conscious mark making and primal longings of the artist immersed in the contemporary global marketplace of urbanity. Adopting a hybrid human-animal archetype as the dominant symbology of his work, the paintings suggest a return to ‘basic instincts’ as the fusing of Man’s ancient and contemporary impulses, drives and desires. Female forms dominate the field, expressing Kuvt’s deep reverence and fascination with the formal and metaphysical qualities of the feminine mystique.

A second-generation artist, Kuvt’s expressive language of color and fondness for the immediacy of flat surfaces alludes to work of the old masters, particularly Matisse.  At the same time, Kuvt’s use of opaque color and unique approach to ‘flat’ space are bipartisan in nature. A style largely developed after his move to America from his native country Georgia in 2008, Kuvt’s use of flush, simple colors critique the perceptive visual domain of American commercialism. On a fundamental level, Goga Kuvt’s works are the product of the artist’s filtering of quotidian daily life, his paintings a quotient of the here and now of visual matter be it advertising, signage or nature. His works breathe fresh life into the architectonic forms of the perpetual flux of a crowded municipal terrain.

Adopting the urban foliage of New York City as existential fodder, the work lends itself to a distinctly Pop sensibility. Kuvt’s figurative and abstract renderings of form suggest a mythology of daily life that easily transfers into the accessible language of mass production and branding. As the expression of Kuvt’s own experimental visual philosophy, the symbols aren’t dogma but rather ‘open’ associative forms that speak to the language of painting, iconography of Ancient civilizations as well as the rugged materiality of urban daily life. Kuvt’s collection of God and Goddess totems are not distant icons but rather, visual prototypes for the creative evolution of man nodding toward a future in which we are all creators and conscious actors in Life.

2012 Goga Kuvt