David Datuna was born in 1974 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has lived in America since 1999 and frequently travels to Russia and Georgia.

Datuna’s art questions memory and perceptions, focusing on the underlying trigger points that cause a deep, internal  recognition. Analysing and highlighting talismanic symbols such as national flags or the everyday objects that get overlooked, such as plates, David’s oeuvre aims to actively engage his spectators and create an emotional connection between them and the art.

Datuna latest works encompass a multitude of materials. The result is a combination of sculpture, painting and installation. The neon pieces encourage the spectator's eye to roam over them, demonstrating how perception is affected by the viewers’ physical relation to the pieces. Plates represent humanity, with its infinite variation of shapes, sizes and colours but with an underlying fragility, inherent familiar memories and imperfections. The works which incorporate spectacles offer a new persepctive on how we see art and society, examining the complex veil of perceptions and human reality beneath their jewel like, shiny surface.

2009 World award and star delivery «ARS Longa»

MEMBERSHIP

• International Art Fund
• Moscow Art Association
• Worldwide charitable Alliance "Peacemaker”
• Russian Children's Welfare Society Foundation in New York

COLLECTIONS

• Moscow Museum of Modern Art

EXHIBITIONS

2011

• Villa del Arte galleries, Barcelona, Spain
• Los Angeles Art Show, U. S.

2010

• Art Miami, U. S.
• Villa del Arte galleries, Barcelona, Spain Arsenal Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
• Art London, U. K.
• Art Moscow, Russia
• Mironova Gallery, Bridgehampton, U. S.
• Art Hamptons, New York, U. S.
• Art Basel
• Art Chicago, U. S.
• Art Scope New York City, U. S.
• Art Palm Beach, Miami, U. S.

2009

• Mironova Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
• Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
• Art Miami, U. S.
• Art Scope New York City, U. S.

2008

• The Moscow House of Artists "Russian Art Week", Moscow, Russia
• ACAF Art Fair New York City, U. S.
• 798 Avant Gallery, New York, U. S.
• Art Now Miami, U. S.
• Art Now New York, U. S.
• Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow, Russia

2007

• ACAF Art Fair New York City, U. S.
• Art Now Miami, U. K.
• Art Now New York, U. S.

2006

• Central Exhibit Hall "Na Kuznetskom Mostu", Moscow, Russia
• 798 Avant Gallery, New York, U. S.
• Art Hong Kong

2005

• Exhibition Hall "Na Krutitskom Valu", Moscow, Russia
• Museum of Literature, Moscow, Russia

2004

• Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia