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Curator Baia Tsikoridze<\/strong><\/p>\nExhibition and Catalogue Presentation
\nBaia Gallery, Private Collections Space \u2014 Tbilisi, 0108, 19A Pavle Ingorokva Street.
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Temo Japaridze (27 March 1937 \u2013 23 September 2012) was a Georgian painter and writer, and one of the key representatives of Georgian nonconformist art, whose work is dedicated to the search for personal freedom and an individual artistic language within the Soviet ideological system. His artistic development took place during the Soviet cultural \u201cThaw\u201d of the 1950s\u201360s, when the official dogma of Socialist Realism was gradually challenged by unofficial, nonconformist art. This movement rejected ideologized aesthetics and turned toward the experience of European modernism, experimentation, and subjective expression. Central to Japaridze\u2019s work are themes of the human inner world, existential experience, and freedom, which stands in sharp contrast to the collectivist and propagandistic model of Soviet art.<\/p>\n
Japaridze graduated from Tbilisi State University with a degree in English Language and Literature; he did not receive formal art education. In 1964, an exhibition held in the university assembly hall brought him his first recognition. In 1968, his exhibition at the Committee for Cultural Relations was considered one of the earliest abstract experiments in Soviet Georgia and closed soon after, clearly illustrating the conflict between nonconformist art and the system.<\/p>\n
In the 1970s, the artist created experimental, textural, and relief works, including \u2018The Last Supper\u2019 (1972), one of his most significant pieces, which combines planar and volumetric forms. During this period, he developed so-called \u2018dark paintings\u2019 in which the spiritual drama of Soviet reality, human loneliness, and existential tension are expressed through a dark palette and generalized forms.<\/p>\n
In the 1990s, Japaridze continued to experiment with materials and form, using crumpled canvas and sculptural surfaces, and creating series such as \u2018The Standing and the Fallen\u2019 and \u2018Odysseus\u2019 New Journey.\u2019 His late works is characterized by a symbolic, philosophical, and ironic vision of human existence. Overall, Temo Japaridze\u2019s art represents a visual manifesto of personal freedom, spiritual values, and human dignity, forming one of the fundamental lines of Georgian nonconformist art.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI painted all my works with love for Georgia,<\/strong>
and on that foundation I created my own artistic style.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nFelix Varlamishvili (1903\u20131986)<\/p>\n
Felix Varlamishvili was a representative figure of Georgian \u00e9migr\u00e9 culture. He was born in Kutaisi on April 22, 1903. In 1920, he enrolled at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Tbilisi State University, and from 1922 to 1926, he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. In 1928, he left for Paris, later settled in Argentina, and returned to Paris again in 1952. He passed away on February 6, 1986. In 1987, in accordance with the artist\u2019s will, his wife, Zire Binder, donated ten of his paintings to the Georgian State Museum of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n
The artistic legacy of Felix Varlamishvili is deeply rooted in two cultural worlds. Though Georgian by origin, he spent much of his life in Paris. Consequently, his art, like Georgian painting itself, embodies a synthesis of both Western and Eastern cultural elements. Through his masterful use of color, the artist achieved effects reminiscent of precious stones’ brilliance. Within a symbolic, icon-like space that evokes an illusion of eternity, unfold \u201cstories\u201d from everyday life: scenes of labor, harvest, hunting, fishing, leisure, family idylls, and festivities. Yet, these mundane moments are rendered with such reverence that they evoke the atmosphere of ritual or mystical action. His central theme is the celebration of life within the ordinary, where the mystery of existence is conveyed through the simplicity of daily experience. At times, he also turned to mythological, religious, and historical subjects.<\/p>\n
In his creative work, Felix Varlamishvili elevates every subject toward the supra-real, sometimes even into the realm of the fantastical. Scenes of human life and relationships in his works are illuminated by the radiance of beauty, grace, and eternity. He achieves this through harmonious, refined interpretations of themes, delicate color schemes, and the stylization of form. Motifs often recur, reinterpreted in varying compositional and chromatic arrangements. Figures in his paintings lose all sense of materiality; much like the masters of the Middle Ages, the artist depicts the human body as a \u201cvessel\u201d for the soul, a precious \u201ccontainer.\u201d His works reveal the influence of Gothic sculpture and icon painting, while simultaneously introducing a modernist interpretation of form, in which the human figure is transformed by emotional vibration and expressed through stylized, linear linearity reduced to an abstracted figurative scheme.<\/p>\n
In Varlas artistic oeuvre, Georgian and European themes, along with elements from various cultures, are harmoniously intertwined. His use of color radiates with the brilliance of Byzantine mosaics and medieval Georgian enamels. The scenes are at times constructed upon the principles of the icon, following the compositional schemes of religious art; at other times, the stylistic features of Eastern miniature painting are boldly and intriguingly fused with the configurations of Western art. The theatrical presentation of his subjects, the choreographic grace and elegance of his figures, the world poised on the boundary between the real and the surreal, the distant image and allure of his homeland, the luminous texture, and the unique artistic manner of expressing beauty, all these render Varla\u2019s work part of the humanist tradition. His art embodies a poetic argument for the harmonious coexistence of humanity and the universe.<\/p>\n
Baia Tsikoridze<\/p>\n
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Curator Baia Tsikoridze<\/strong><\/p>\nExhibition and Catalogue Presentation
\nBaia Gallery, Private Collections Space \u2014 Tbilisi, 0108, 19A Pavle Ingorokva Street.
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Temo Japaridze (27 March 1937 \u2013 23 September 2012) was a Georgian painter and writer, and one of the key representatives of Georgian nonconformist art, whose work is dedicated to the search for personal freedom and an individual artistic language within the Soviet ideological system. His artistic development took place during the Soviet cultural \u201cThaw\u201d of the 1950s\u201360s, when the official dogma of Socialist Realism was gradually challenged by unofficial, nonconformist art. This movement rejected ideologized aesthetics and turned toward the experience of European modernism, experimentation, and subjective expression. Central to Japaridze\u2019s work are themes of the human inner world, existential experience, and freedom, which stands in sharp contrast to the collectivist and propagandistic model of Soviet art.<\/p>\n
Japaridze graduated from Tbilisi State University with a degree in English Language and Literature; he did not receive formal art education. In 1964, an exhibition held in the university assembly hall brought him his first recognition. In 1968, his exhibition at the Committee for Cultural Relations was considered one of the earliest abstract experiments in Soviet Georgia and closed soon after, clearly illustrating the conflict between nonconformist art and the system.<\/p>\n
In the 1970s, the artist created experimental, textural, and relief works, including \u2018The Last Supper\u2019 (1972), one of his most significant pieces, which combines planar and volumetric forms. During this period, he developed so-called \u2018dark paintings\u2019 in which the spiritual drama of Soviet reality, human loneliness, and existential tension are expressed through a dark palette and generalized forms.<\/p>\n
In the 1990s, Japaridze continued to experiment with materials and form, using crumpled canvas and sculptural surfaces, and creating series such as \u2018The Standing and the Fallen\u2019 and \u2018Odysseus\u2019 New Journey.\u2019 His late works is characterized by a symbolic, philosophical, and ironic vision of human existence. Overall, Temo Japaridze\u2019s art represents a visual manifesto of personal freedom, spiritual values, and human dignity, forming one of the fundamental lines of Georgian nonconformist art.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI painted all my works with love for Georgia,<\/strong>
and on that foundation I created my own artistic style.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nFelix Varlamishvili (1903\u20131986)<\/p>\n
Felix Varlamishvili was a representative figure of Georgian \u00e9migr\u00e9 culture. He was born in Kutaisi on April 22, 1903. In 1920, he enrolled at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Tbilisi State University, and from 1922 to 1926, he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. In 1928, he left for Paris, later settled in Argentina, and returned to Paris again in 1952. He passed away on February 6, 1986. In 1987, in accordance with the artist\u2019s will, his wife, Zire Binder, donated ten of his paintings to the Georgian State Museum of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n
The artistic legacy of Felix Varlamishvili is deeply rooted in two cultural worlds. Though Georgian by origin, he spent much of his life in Paris. Consequently, his art, like Georgian painting itself, embodies a synthesis of both Western and Eastern cultural elements. Through his masterful use of color, the artist achieved effects reminiscent of precious stones’ brilliance. Within a symbolic, icon-like space that evokes an illusion of eternity, unfold \u201cstories\u201d from everyday life: scenes of labor, harvest, hunting, fishing, leisure, family idylls, and festivities. Yet, these mundane moments are rendered with such reverence that they evoke the atmosphere of ritual or mystical action. His central theme is the celebration of life within the ordinary, where the mystery of existence is conveyed through the simplicity of daily experience. At times, he also turned to mythological, religious, and historical subjects.<\/p>\n
In his creative work, Felix Varlamishvili elevates every subject toward the supra-real, sometimes even into the realm of the fantastical. Scenes of human life and relationships in his works are illuminated by the radiance of beauty, grace, and eternity. He achieves this through harmonious, refined interpretations of themes, delicate color schemes, and the stylization of form. Motifs often recur, reinterpreted in varying compositional and chromatic arrangements. Figures in his paintings lose all sense of materiality; much like the masters of the Middle Ages, the artist depicts the human body as a \u201cvessel\u201d for the soul, a precious \u201ccontainer.\u201d His works reveal the influence of Gothic sculpture and icon painting, while simultaneously introducing a modernist interpretation of form, in which the human figure is transformed by emotional vibration and expressed through stylized, linear linearity reduced to an abstracted figurative scheme.<\/p>\n
In Varlas artistic oeuvre, Georgian and European themes, along with elements from various cultures, are harmoniously intertwined. His use of color radiates with the brilliance of Byzantine mosaics and medieval Georgian enamels. The scenes are at times constructed upon the principles of the icon, following the compositional schemes of religious art; at other times, the stylistic features of Eastern miniature painting are boldly and intriguingly fused with the configurations of Western art. The theatrical presentation of his subjects, the choreographic grace and elegance of his figures, the world poised on the boundary between the real and the surreal, the distant image and allure of his homeland, the luminous texture, and the unique artistic manner of expressing beauty, all these render Varla\u2019s work part of the humanist tradition. His art embodies a poetic argument for the harmonious coexistence of humanity and the universe.<\/p>\n
Baia Tsikoridze<\/p>\n
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Installation Views<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\/\u00a0\u00a0Works<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>About<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” vertical_offset_tablet=”0″ horizontal_offset_tablet=”0″ z_index_tablet=”0″ box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_vertical_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” box_shadow_spread_tablet=”0px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/baiagallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temo_Japaridze_book-scaled.jpg” title_text=”Temo Japaridze Book” show_in_lightbox=”on” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ vertical_offset_tablet=”0″ horizontal_offset_tablet=”0″ width_tablet=”80%” width_phone=”” width_last_edited=”on|phone” hover_enabled=”0″ z_index_tablet=”0″ box_shadow_style=”preset6″ box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text = About” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ vertical_offset_tablet=”0″ horizontal_offset_tablet=”0″ text_orientation=”justified” z_index_tablet=”0″ text_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” text_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” text_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” link_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” link_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” link_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” ul_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” ul_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” ul_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” ol_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” ol_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” ol_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” quote_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” quote_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” quote_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_2_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_2_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_2_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_3_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_3_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_3_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_4_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_4_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_4_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_5_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_5_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_5_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_6_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_6_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_6_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_vertical_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” box_shadow_spread_tablet=”0px” global_colors_info=”{}”]Temo Japaridze PAINTING \u2013 A SECRET HIEROGLYPH<\/strong><\/p>\n15.05.2026 – 05.06.2026<\/p>\n
Curator Baia Tsikoridze<\/strong><\/p>\nExhibition and Catalogue Presentation
\nBaia Gallery, Private Collections Space \u2014 Tbilisi, 0108, 19A Pavle Ingorokva Street.
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Temo Japaridze (27 March 1937 \u2013 23 September 2012) was a Georgian painter and writer, and one of the key representatives of Georgian nonconformist art, whose work is dedicated to the search for personal freedom and an individual artistic language within the Soviet ideological system. His artistic development took place during the Soviet cultural \u201cThaw\u201d of the 1950s\u201360s, when the official dogma of Socialist Realism was gradually challenged by unofficial, nonconformist art. This movement rejected ideologized aesthetics and turned toward the experience of European modernism, experimentation, and subjective expression. Central to Japaridze\u2019s work are themes of the human inner world, existential experience, and freedom, which stands in sharp contrast to the collectivist and propagandistic model of Soviet art.<\/p>\n
Japaridze graduated from Tbilisi State University with a degree in English Language and Literature; he did not receive formal art education. In 1964, an exhibition held in the university assembly hall brought him his first recognition. In 1968, his exhibition at the Committee for Cultural Relations was considered one of the earliest abstract experiments in Soviet Georgia and closed soon after, clearly illustrating the conflict between nonconformist art and the system.<\/p>\n
In the 1970s, the artist created experimental, textural, and relief works, including \u2018The Last Supper\u2019 (1972), one of his most significant pieces, which combines planar and volumetric forms. During this period, he developed so-called \u2018dark paintings\u2019 in which the spiritual drama of Soviet reality, human loneliness, and existential tension are expressed through a dark palette and generalized forms.<\/p>\n
In the 1990s, Japaridze continued to experiment with materials and form, using crumpled canvas and sculptural surfaces, and creating series such as \u2018The Standing and the Fallen\u2019 and \u2018Odysseus\u2019 New Journey.\u2019 His late works is characterized by a symbolic, philosophical, and ironic vision of human existence. Overall, Temo Japaridze\u2019s art represents a visual manifesto of personal freedom, spiritual values, and human dignity, forming one of the fundamental lines of Georgian nonconformist art.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI painted all my works with love for Georgia,<\/strong>
and on that foundation I created my own artistic style.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nFelix Varlamishvili (1903\u20131986)<\/p>\n
Felix Varlamishvili was a representative figure of Georgian \u00e9migr\u00e9 culture. He was born in Kutaisi on April 22, 1903. In 1920, he enrolled at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Tbilisi State University, and from 1922 to 1926, he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. In 1928, he left for Paris, later settled in Argentina, and returned to Paris again in 1952. He passed away on February 6, 1986. In 1987, in accordance with the artist\u2019s will, his wife, Zire Binder, donated ten of his paintings to the Georgian State Museum of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n
The artistic legacy of Felix Varlamishvili is deeply rooted in two cultural worlds. Though Georgian by origin, he spent much of his life in Paris. Consequently, his art, like Georgian painting itself, embodies a synthesis of both Western and Eastern cultural elements. Through his masterful use of color, the artist achieved effects reminiscent of precious stones’ brilliance. Within a symbolic, icon-like space that evokes an illusion of eternity, unfold \u201cstories\u201d from everyday life: scenes of labor, harvest, hunting, fishing, leisure, family idylls, and festivities. Yet, these mundane moments are rendered with such reverence that they evoke the atmosphere of ritual or mystical action. His central theme is the celebration of life within the ordinary, where the mystery of existence is conveyed through the simplicity of daily experience. At times, he also turned to mythological, religious, and historical subjects.<\/p>\n
In his creative work, Felix Varlamishvili elevates every subject toward the supra-real, sometimes even into the realm of the fantastical. Scenes of human life and relationships in his works are illuminated by the radiance of beauty, grace, and eternity. He achieves this through harmonious, refined interpretations of themes, delicate color schemes, and the stylization of form. Motifs often recur, reinterpreted in varying compositional and chromatic arrangements. Figures in his paintings lose all sense of materiality; much like the masters of the Middle Ages, the artist depicts the human body as a \u201cvessel\u201d for the soul, a precious \u201ccontainer.\u201d His works reveal the influence of Gothic sculpture and icon painting, while simultaneously introducing a modernist interpretation of form, in which the human figure is transformed by emotional vibration and expressed through stylized, linear linearity reduced to an abstracted figurative scheme.<\/p>\n
In Varlas artistic oeuvre, Georgian and European themes, along with elements from various cultures, are harmoniously intertwined. His use of color radiates with the brilliance of Byzantine mosaics and medieval Georgian enamels. The scenes are at times constructed upon the principles of the icon, following the compositional schemes of religious art; at other times, the stylistic features of Eastern miniature painting are boldly and intriguingly fused with the configurations of Western art. The theatrical presentation of his subjects, the choreographic grace and elegance of his figures, the world poised on the boundary between the real and the surreal, the distant image and allure of his homeland, the luminous texture, and the unique artistic manner of expressing beauty, all these render Varla\u2019s work part of the humanist tradition. His art embodies a poetic argument for the harmonious coexistence of humanity and the universe.<\/p>\n
Baia Tsikoridze<\/p>\n
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15.05.2026 – 05.06.2026<\/p>\n
Curator Baia Tsikoridze<\/strong><\/p>\n Exhibition and Catalogue Presentation +995 599 41 13 18\u00a0 \u00a0 +995 599 50 53 02<\/p>\n Temo Japaridze (27 March 1937 \u2013 23 September 2012) was a Georgian painter and writer, and one of the key representatives of Georgian nonconformist art, whose work is dedicated to the search for personal freedom and an individual artistic language within the Soviet ideological system. His artistic development took place during the Soviet cultural \u201cThaw\u201d of the 1950s\u201360s, when the official dogma of Socialist Realism was gradually challenged by unofficial, nonconformist art. This movement rejected ideologized aesthetics and turned toward the experience of European modernism, experimentation, and subjective expression. Central to Japaridze\u2019s work are themes of the human inner world, existential experience, and freedom, which stands in sharp contrast to the collectivist and propagandistic model of Soviet art.<\/p>\n Japaridze graduated from Tbilisi State University with a degree in English Language and Literature; he did not receive formal art education. In 1964, an exhibition held in the university assembly hall brought him his first recognition. In 1968, his exhibition at the Committee for Cultural Relations was considered one of the earliest abstract experiments in Soviet Georgia and closed soon after, clearly illustrating the conflict between nonconformist art and the system.<\/p>\n In the 1970s, the artist created experimental, textural, and relief works, including \u2018The Last Supper\u2019 (1972), one of his most significant pieces, which combines planar and volumetric forms. During this period, he developed so-called \u2018dark paintings\u2019 in which the spiritual drama of Soviet reality, human loneliness, and existential tension are expressed through a dark palette and generalized forms.<\/p>\n In the 1990s, Japaridze continued to experiment with materials and form, using crumpled canvas and sculptural surfaces, and creating series such as \u2018The Standing and the Fallen\u2019 and \u2018Odysseus\u2019 New Journey.\u2019 His late works is characterized by a symbolic, philosophical, and ironic vision of human existence. Overall, Temo Japaridze\u2019s art represents a visual manifesto of personal freedom, spiritual values, and human dignity, forming one of the fundamental lines of Georgian nonconformist art.<\/p>\n Nana Shervashidze[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” vertical_offset_tablet=”0″ horizontal_offset_tablet=”0″ z_index_tablet=”0″ box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_vertical_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” box_shadow_spread_tablet=”0px” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/baiagallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Felix_Varlamishvili_from-private_collection_Poster.jpg” title_text=”Felix Varlamishvili From Private Collection Poster” show_in_lightbox=”on” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ vertical_offset_tablet=”0″ horizontal_offset_tablet=”0″ width_tablet=”80%” width_phone=”” width_last_edited=”on|phone” z_index_tablet=”0″ box_shadow_style=”preset6″ box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/cvRC0Fx5T9g” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” vertical_offset_tablet=”0″ horizontal_offset_tablet=”0″ z_index_tablet=”0″ box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_vertical_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” box_shadow_spread_tablet=”0px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text = About” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ vertical_offset_tablet=”0″ horizontal_offset_tablet=”0″ z_index_tablet=”0″ text_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” text_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” text_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” link_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” link_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” link_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” ul_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” ul_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” ul_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” ol_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” ol_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” ol_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” quote_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” quote_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” quote_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_2_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_2_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_2_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_3_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_3_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_3_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_4_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_4_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_4_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_5_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_5_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_5_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_6_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_6_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_6_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_vertical_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” box_shadow_spread_tablet=”0px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u201cI painted all my works with love for Georgia,<\/strong> Felix Varlamishvili (1903\u20131986)<\/p>\n Felix Varlamishvili was a representative figure of Georgian \u00e9migr\u00e9 culture. He was born in Kutaisi on April 22, 1903. In 1920, he enrolled at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Tbilisi State University, and from 1922 to 1926, he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. In 1928, he left for Paris, later settled in Argentina, and returned to Paris again in 1952. He passed away on February 6, 1986. In 1987, in accordance with the artist\u2019s will, his wife, Zire Binder, donated ten of his paintings to the Georgian State Museum of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n The artistic legacy of Felix Varlamishvili is deeply rooted in two cultural worlds. Though Georgian by origin, he spent much of his life in Paris. Consequently, his art, like Georgian painting itself, embodies a synthesis of both Western and Eastern cultural elements. Through his masterful use of color, the artist achieved effects reminiscent of precious stones’ brilliance. Within a symbolic, icon-like space that evokes an illusion of eternity, unfold \u201cstories\u201d from everyday life: scenes of labor, harvest, hunting, fishing, leisure, family idylls, and festivities. Yet, these mundane moments are rendered with such reverence that they evoke the atmosphere of ritual or mystical action. His central theme is the celebration of life within the ordinary, where the mystery of existence is conveyed through the simplicity of daily experience. At times, he also turned to mythological, religious, and historical subjects.<\/p>\n In his creative work, Felix Varlamishvili elevates every subject toward the supra-real, sometimes even into the realm of the fantastical. Scenes of human life and relationships in his works are illuminated by the radiance of beauty, grace, and eternity. He achieves this through harmonious, refined interpretations of themes, delicate color schemes, and the stylization of form. Motifs often recur, reinterpreted in varying compositional and chromatic arrangements. Figures in his paintings lose all sense of materiality; much like the masters of the Middle Ages, the artist depicts the human body as a \u201cvessel\u201d for the soul, a precious \u201ccontainer.\u201d His works reveal the influence of Gothic sculpture and icon painting, while simultaneously introducing a modernist interpretation of form, in which the human figure is transformed by emotional vibration and expressed through stylized, linear linearity reduced to an abstracted figurative scheme.<\/p>\n In Varlas artistic oeuvre, Georgian and European themes, along with elements from various cultures, are harmoniously intertwined. His use of color radiates with the brilliance of Byzantine mosaics and medieval Georgian enamels. The scenes are at times constructed upon the principles of the icon, following the compositional schemes of religious art; at other times, the stylistic features of Eastern miniature painting are boldly and intriguingly fused with the configurations of Western art. The theatrical presentation of his subjects, the choreographic grace and elegance of his figures, the world poised on the boundary between the real and the surreal, the distant image and allure of his homeland, the luminous texture, and the unique artistic manner of expressing beauty, all these render Varla\u2019s work part of the humanist tradition. His art embodies a poetic argument for the harmonious coexistence of humanity and the universe.<\/p>\n Baia Tsikoridze<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_post_nav in_same_term=”on” prev_text=”Previous ” next_text=”Next ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ title_font=”|700|||||||” vertical_offset_tablet=”0″ horizontal_offset_tablet=”0″ z_index_tablet=”0″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” title_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” title_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_vertical_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” box_shadow_spread_tablet=”0px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Temo Japaridze PAINTING – A SECRET HIEROGLYPH May 15 \u2013 June 6 , 2026 Exhibition and Catalogue Presentation Baia Gallery, Private Collections Space – Tbilisi, 0108, 19A Pavle Ingorokva Street Installation Views\u00a0\u00a0\/\u00a0\u00a0Works\u00a0\u00a0\/\u00a0\u00a0About
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and on that foundation I created my own artistic style.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>