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Temo Japaridze (1937- 2012)
1957-1963 – Tbilisi Iv. Javakhishvili State University. Faculty of Western European Languages and Literature. English Language and Literature.Started painting in 1962.
Personal exhibitions:
1964 – Iv. Javakhishvili State University. Tbilisi, Georgia. 1968 – Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Tbilisi, Georgia. Due to the Soviet censorship, the exhibition was officially closed in three days, but unofficially it continued for two weeks. 1976 – Akaki Khorava House of Actors. Tbilisi, Georgia. 1986 – House of Artists. Tbilisi, Georgia. 1991 – Exhibition Hall of the Rustaveli Society. Tbilisi, Georgia. 1991 – Gallery Dariali. Paris, France. 1991 – Gallery Hauche. Vannes, France. 1996 – Forbidden Exhibition. Gallery TMS. Tbilisi, Georgia. The repeated showing of the exhibition banned by the Soviet censorship in 1968. 1999 – Gallery Orient (Baia Gallery). Tbilisi, Georgia. 2000 – A New Journey of Odysseus. Gallery Vernissage. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2003 – Gallery Kopala. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2014 – Works from the 1960s and 1970s. Gallery Chardin. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2014 – Retrospective Exhibition. MoMA. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2021 – The Silence of Painting. Georgian Museum of Fine Arts. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2026 – Painting – a Secret Hieroglyph. Baia Gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia.
Group exhibitions:
2001 – Counterculture. National Gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2004-The Classics of Nonconformism. Baia Gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2004-2006 – Elite Gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2007-2008 – Art Gallery Line. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2023 – Exhibition of Georgian Nonconformists. Georgian National Museum. Tbilisi, Georgia. 2023 – Collector. Baia Gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia.
Important works (paintings, illustrations):
Tammuz’s Dream – ancient Mesopotamian poetry; Translated from Sumerian and Akkadian by Zurab Kiknadze, artist T. Japaridze, Nakaduli Publishing House, Tbilisi, 1969. The Last Supper – relief painting, 1972. This work was exhibited at the Artist’s House in Tbilisi. Was destroyed in the fire of 1991 during the Tbilisi Civil War. Portraits of the Georgian kings David the Builder, Demetrius the Devoted and Luarsab II. 1977-1978. Commissioned by the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia. The portraits were destroyed in the fire in the Patriarchate, 1978. Erlom Akhvlediani, Vano and Niko; Artist T. Japaridze, Publishing House Nekeri, Tbilisi, 1997.
Books and essays:
Niko Pirosmani. Life and Work; Publishing House Nekeri, Tbilisi, 1999. The Silence of a Painting. Collection of essays. 1978-1979. Caucasian House, Tbilisi, 2010. Temo Japaridze’s works are preserved at the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, the Moscow Museum of Oriental Art, and in private collections.
