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David DatunaChaotic Past – Wall Sculpture by David Datuna, 20112018
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About the Item
In Chaotic Past, David Datuna transforms the everyday into a layered reflection on modern life. Using shattered china dishes embedded into a framed wall composition, the work draws directly from his installation—a staged dishwasher overflowing with broken porcelain at an art fair—confronting themes of routine, disruption, and emotional dissonance beneath surface order.
The fractured tableware becomes both medium and metaphor: a quiet domestic implosion frozen in time, where beauty, chaos, and memory converge. As with much of Datuna’s work, this piece blurs the line between installation, sculpture, and painting—anchoring personal narrative within shared cultural symbols.
- Creator:David Datuna (1974, Georgian)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Brooklyn, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2879216737992
David Datuna
Merging the handcrafted and the technological, the historical and the contemporary, the personal and the universal, mixed-media artist David Datuna creates layered compositions through which he presents social, political, and cultural issues for consideration from multiple viewpoints. Optical lenses are key to his practice. He overlays them in web-like patterns onto images of national flags, global brands, and portraits of famous authors, inventors, and artists of all kinds, composed of collaged photographs, newspaper articles, magazine clippings, and painted passages. As Datuna describes, the lenses, which simultaneously distort and clarify the images, signify the network of individual viewpoints brought to bear on all issues. “The lenses symbolically express individual identity, illusion, perception, fragmentation, and unification,” he says. “The network of positive and negative lenses expresses the multiple points of view we all share from within.”
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