Young artist Elene Shatberashvili in Paris exhibition featuring Modigliani, Salle
The young artist's work has included an exploration of gaze and identity through self-portraiture. Images via Tajan gallery.
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Paris-based emerging art talent Elene Shatberashvili has been selected to feature in a group display of portrait works by creatives from across times, bringing her works to the first display following her graduation to the exhibition featuring the names like Giovanni Caracciolo, Amedeo Modigliani and David Salle.
Shatberashvili, who has graduated from Paris' National School of Fine Arts, will be introduced to viewers in Portraits Forever, a look at works from "Old Masters", modernist painters and contemporary artists.
At the French capital's Tajan gallery venue, the display's "historical approach" to portrait works for an "absolute celebration of painting" starting with its opening next week.
The portrait is the artist’s ultimate test because it requires the complete blending of exterior visual imagery with the expression of people’s innermost personal feelings" - Tajan
The subject has been a focus of creative work by Shatberashvili, who has explored the phenomenon of gaze and questions of identity in creations including her self-portraits.
In preview of the event, Tajan gallery president Rodica Seward said she was "extremely happy and proud" with her discovery of "remarkable" contemporary artists like Shatberashvili and her fellow graduates of the Paris school.
Elene Shatberashivili accumulates images, posters on the wall of a room or orthodox icons from her native Georgia, as disparate clues. It confronts the points of view by adding and deleting and makes a pictorial game, close to the rebus, a multiple and fragmented self" - Henri Guette
Along with Shatberashvili the selection includes works by American painter and photographer David Salle - called a "prominent Neo-Expressionist artist" by artnet.com - 20th century French avant-gardist Francis Picabia and Belgian artist Evelyne Axell.
Following the French celebration of portraiture, the young Georgian artist's works will also be presented to viewers in EIGEN+ART, a Leipzig gallery, via J’aime, je nʼaime pas, an exhibition bringing together six young creatives.
The two displays mark the first exhibitions for the Georgian following her graduation, with last year's diploma display at the National School of Fine Arts preceding them. The Tajan venue will host the portrait-focused event starting February 25, with the German gallery opening its doors four days later.