Unseen works by renowned painter Irakli Parjiani exhibited in Tbilisi
Tweet 
Share
Illustrations by a Georgian painter, who was posthumously awarded several of the country’s highest honours, are going on display for the first time in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi to mark the painter’s birthday.
From September 5-20 previously unseen work by renowned painter Irakli Parjiani will be on display at Art Palace in central Tbilisi.
The theme of the exhibition will be The Gospels of St. Mark and St. John and will include a collection of images created by the painter in 1976. The works will be presented for public viewing for the first time to mark the 65th anniversary of the painter’s birth.
The exhibition was collaboratively organised by Art Palace and Baia Gallery, and the collection was a representation of Parjiani’s preferred genre of religious illustrations.
"Boats” by Irakli Parjiani.
Parjiani, born in 1950, graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1974 and worked as a freelance artist. The artist worked in Germany throughout 1989-1990 and was featured in exhibitions in Berlin and Barcelona.
His work included illustrations for Goethe’s Faust, Homer’s Odyssey as well as Georgian and German fairytales.
Parjiani died in Tbilisi in 1991, aged 41. Since his passing his work has been exhibited in Tbilisi and throughout Europe.
The painter was posthumously awarded the State Prize of Georgia in 1992 and the Pirosmani Prize in 1996.
The exhibition will launch at 7pm on September 5.
The Georgian Museum of Theatre, Music, Cinema and Choreography has acquired a historical piece by painter Sergo Kobuladze with support of the Ministry of Culture.
Georgian artist Vakho Bugadze has taken a step back in time to relive his childhood memories, filled with fantasies and excitement, and has put these thoughts onto canvas for public appreciation.
Georgia is hosting an exhibition of previously unseen works by late Georgian modernist painter Shalva Kikodze (1894-1921) to celebrate the 120th birthday of the popular artist.
A collection of Christmas paintings by renowned late Georgian artist Irakli Parjiani opened for visitors of the Tbilisi-based Baia Gallery on Sunday.
Georgian art treasures exhibited on largest online repository
Unique examples of Georgian cultural treasures will join works by famous artists and historical collections on the world's largest online database uniting museums and arts organisations for all over the globe.
Rich landscapes of Mexican countryside, represented in expressionist works by celebrated Swiss-born Mexican painter Roger von Gunten, will go on display for six weeks at Tbilisi's Museum of Fine Arts starting this Thursday.
Contemporary art enthusiasts will have a rare display to mark their festive season, as the newly opened Georgian Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi has made its private collections accessible to the public for the first time.
A surrealist painter living in a remote highland village of Georgia will have his first exhibition at the age of 75 when a Georgian National Museum display brings the art of Pridon Nizharadze to capital Tbilisi on Saturday.
The rich legacy of painter Irakli Parjiani, notable for its impact on the Georgian scene and beyond, is being celebrated with an online display of portraits created by the late artist in the 70th anniversary year of his birth.
A famous painting by late Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani has been granted as a gift to Georgia 96 years after it was last displayed to the public in Tbilisi.
Tbilisi's National Gallery venue reopened on Tuesday after the first renovation in a decade, with visitors hosted for a display of works by iconic primitivist painter Niko Pirosmanashvili and 20th century postmodern artist Irakli Parjiani.
Tbilisi's Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Art now boasts the first state laboratory for examination of artwork in the South Caucasus region after the launch of the modern lab at the venue on Thursday.
The recently inaugurated Irakli Parjiani Artwork Research and Expertise Laboratory, a venue specialising in examination of artworks, has officially validated the authenticity of a painting by Niko Pirosmani, the iconic self-taught Georgian artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Culture Minister Thea Tsulukiani announced on Wednesday.