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Irakli Parjiani

"Here comes the solar dream!" Galaktion Tabidze

At the end of the 1970s, which was still referred to as the era of socialism, various movements began to emerge in the stream of official Georgian art. Their specific features were at times determined by the influence of international art, at others by the growing non-conformist voices heard in the Soviet ...

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Merab Abramishvili "Plant Inaccessible Gardens..."

Merab Abramishvili is a “garden architect.” The world he wishes for is a garden, or rather its archetype – “The Garden of Eden.” All of his works echo the topos of Paradise, and convey the pleasure of being inside the Garden, as well as the hazards of being outside the Garden. The main theme of his oeuvre is founded on the biblical story of losing the ...

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Guranda Klibadze “Kings and Royal Gardens” 2024

As a result of their extremely powerful energy, the objects in the paintings and creative field of Guranda Klibadze explode like mines. A painted flower opens and flourishes in front of our eyes; the trembling body of a horse exudes the excitement of a race; the intertwined figures of "Adam and Eve" and "Medea and Jason" demonstrate the fateful interlacing ...

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Kote Sulaberidze “Lovely Garden…”

With his latest exhibition project “Lovely Garden…” Kote Sulaberidze has created a minimalistic model of the grandeur of the universe through colorfully decorated landscapes that are depicted against backgrounds of blood-colored skies. These pictorial objects, which were produced from watercolor sketches on paper, have become a landmark concept and an exhibition project ...

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Nino Moseshvili "5 Vibrations”

Nino Moseshvili's non-figurative paintings, which balance on the verge between abstractive and expressive shapes, present their objects in such a way that they create the impression of attending the process of disintegration and creation of a form. As such, they produce an effect of the purposeful dynamics of energy. Forms are modeled through brush strokes and color ...

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Tutu Kiladze "The tale of ceramics"

The positional and emotional basis of Tutu Kiladze’s work lies in the naïve modernist paradigm of play, the primitivistic schema of the Avant-garde, the reflection of a Dadaist toy horse, and the freedom of children's drawings, all manifested by the purest individual signature of the author. Freedom that is characteristic of childhood; the sense of safety, security and ...

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“Vakho Bugadze "The Caucasian Orangery”

Since the 1990s, Vakho Bugadze has been introducing into Georgian art a specific version of "body language" in terms of new figurativeness. Being a professional sculptor, he works using various media. He is interested in the human body and its plastic language, and shares the feelings, emotions, conflicts, and discoveries that result from bodily contact. The ...

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Merab Abramishvili "Transparent Memory"

The main themes of Merab Abramishvili's work center on the concept of life’s eternity, expressed through a religious model of perceiving the universe, shaped by personal perspective and defined by the historical events of the period in which he lived.

The concept of life governs all the motifs in his work, encompassing both its mundane and otherworldly ...