Irakli Parjiani “Christmas in Abastumani”
December – Februrary, 2020
19a Ingorokva Street
It’s been 27 years, as of the setting up of the gallery that twice a year, in May and December, Baia Gallery becomes allotted to Irakli Parjiani, thus observing the birth and the death dates of the artist either by his personal exhibition or by making him a part of group display. 2020 will be the jubilee year of Parjiani: he will be 70 on May 22, while this year, on December 23, it will be 28 years since his death.
Having determined the stand, style, and trend of the generation, Irakli Parjiani is one of the dominant figures of Georgian art of the 20th century, the involuntary “leader” of the 1980s.
Parjiani is associated with the rehabilitation and transformation of the severed tradition of religious painting in Georgian art. All of the currents, motives, themes, characters, or systems of symbols become assembled in religious paintings, and this is the trend that makes his model of art.
He has introduced the modern current, his modification scheme of abstraction and form in the Georgian painting of that period. He was a connector of the systems of traditional and contemporary cultures, a carrier of secret universe-related knowledge, a “traveler” through metaphysical landscapes, and an interpreter of the eternal issue of life-and-death, symbols, and dreams.