Abkhazia-themed exposition with anti-occupation emphasis
By Mariam Chanishvili
Tuesday, July 30
Georgian Museum of Fine Arts presents Keti Davlianidze’s Abkhazia, which is Abkhazia-themed exposition with anti-occupation emphasis.
The exhibition is symbolically dedicated to the 11th anniversary of the August 2008 war.
Due to the artist’s links to Abkhazia, her background, and home, she decided to relive landscapes and emotions through color. This is the artist’s way of reclaiming her share of Abkhazia.
Keti Davlianidze’s show in the museum’s temporary exhibition hall will open on August 7 and close on August 15.
The audio and video installations are incorporated into the exhibition. The exposition will display the following oil paintings: Bichvinta, Sokhumi Boulevard, Gagripshi, A View of Sokhumi and Gulripshi.
“The video installation visualizes the encounter between passersby and the works, the former’s reactions and emotions. This piece of video art aims to help us ward off cold-heartedness and remind ourselves that which we cannot see but should never forget, that which, at the same time, is an integral part of our being,” reads the description of the exposition.
Born in Tbilisi on August 30, 1976, Davlianidze is an oil painter, graphic artist, production designer.
In 1993-1998, she studied easel graphics at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, concurrently attending classes at Karaman Kutateladze’s studio, and later in 1998, at Sergo Kobuladze’s studio. Synthesizing multiple stylistic elements and employing dripping effect and graphic techniques, her compositions boast enormous expressiveness.
Her works are preserved at the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts and various private collections in Spain (Barcelona), Germany (Berlin, Dusseldorf), and the US (Washington, New York, Atlanta), Russia (Moscow).
She has had various solo exhibitions and participated in different exhibitions internationally.
Georgian Museum of Fine Arts keeps 3500 artworks of 78 Georgian artists from 1940 till now.
