Tamuna Sirbiladze - Andy's Hair

Tamuna Sirbiladze's flower paintings were inspired by Andy Warhol's lithographs "Flowers" from 1964. Aside the visual evidence the proof for that is the witty title of one of her flower paintings, flowers yellow as Warhol's wig with a sky-blue background, called "Andy's Hair". But what for Warhol was a found photograph of hibiscus blossoms, which he used for a technicolor series of silkscreens, Sirbiladze turned into painting, not only because it fitted her fast production, but also because like that she had found a solution how to deal with paintings she did not like anymore. So often her flower paintings are palimpsests, which integrate their first layer into the configuration. She did the...View all