New Exposition of Modern Georgian Art at Kopala Art Gallery in Tbilisi.
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A New Exhibition of Modern Georgian Arts has opened at Kopala Art Gallery in
Tbilisi on May 10, 2005. Visitors can enjoy wide diversity of styles and
directions of the contemporary Georgian paintings and sculptures. This
exhibition may be called as "The Georgian Art of two generations". This
group of imaginative young or eldest artists who had somewhat broken with
the traditional manners of expression are most outstanding. Their enthusiasm
and knowledge of art made some of them good illustrators of newspaper and
journal, others tried themselves in a stage painting, murals, monumental or
performing art and the someone also threw the great cast - in the fine arts'
mastery training.
Best works of 22 well-known Georgian Art Masters are exposed at the gallery.
The styles of the exposed works differ: portrait, landscape painting of a
native kind, pictures of daily life, historical art, etc. The main artistic
trend of the day consists of reaction against romanticism and classicism in
favour of realism. The technique of the artists varied according to the
subject in hand. In presented paintings one can find the self-imposed
limitations of colour-range by the authors, but in general in works are used
low-tone colours. Here the subtle, muted tones and the transparent glazes
mainly indicate painters' great admiration for traditional Georgian art. In
pictures figures are carefully integrated with the background. Sometimes
space is pictorial and not atmospheric. It seems that the training the
young generation of artists has received in Academy of Arts and their
persuasive view on art in relation to life lead them to paint the ordinary
people they see around them on the streets, in cafes or elsewhere.
Among the Veteran Georgian Artists there are the followings: Tengiz
Mirzashvili, Niko Kherkeladze, Omar Megrelidze, Ushangi Khumarashvili, etc.
Niko Kherkeladze is a professor of Tbilisi State Academy of the Fine Arts.
All of them are members of the Georgian Union of Artists and some - of the
International Fund of Artists as well. Their works are opposite to the
general trends of modernism, instead of abstractionism and a purely
representational art or international influences. These masters have more
strong convictions about national character in art. Intelligently
mentioning - "In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when
it most reflects the characters of its people." A special interest is a
painting of Tengiz Mari and Kote Amiredjibi, and small forms of sculpture of
Beso Gulmagarashvili, etc.
Relatively young but nevertheless very talentive Georgian Artists are Anton
Balanchivadze, Avtandil Gurgenidze, Nino Moseshvili, Maka Shatiashvili and
others. Despite a relatively young age they express themselves fully in
painting very successfully.
Gallery also performs some works of the representatives of "the national
minorities" living in Georgia: Alexandr Berdishev, Leonid Semeiko and Zuleik
Bazjbeuckh-Melickovoi. They are members of the Georgian Union of Artists as
well.
In spite of differences of the traditions the above mentioned artists belong
their works are successfully exposing at the famous Arts Halls and Galleries
of the world like the State Tretyakov Gallery in Russia and Karl-Marx
Shtadt's Museum in Germany (in case of N. Kherkeladze), etc. What is more,
the works of N. Kherkeladze together with various national galleries are in
private collections from Japan to USA, similarly to Presidents: Mr. Boris
Yeltsin (Russia), Mr. SРЎРЏРІвЂ“С’Р вЂ˜РІв‚¬ в””leyman Demirel
(Turkey), Mr. Ali Akbar
Hashemi
Rafsanjani (Iran), ex-Premier Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin (Russia), Moscow
Mayor Mr. Y. Luzhkov, and others.
During the exhibition, which will last several days, visitors have a chance
to enrich their collections and to buy some of exposed works of both
generations of Georgian artists at a suitable price.
Visitors may attend the exhibition free of charge every day from 10.00 to
18.00. (Address: 7, Zubalashvili Str., Tbilisi 0108, Georgia. The Next
building from the Georgian Parliament House. Phone (fax): +(99532)-99-9902).
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