Tbilisi celebrates local, foreign avant-garde art
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Tbilisi's Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts invites art enthusiasts to celebrate the legacy of 20th Century Georgian and foreign avant-garde artists within International Museum Day celebrations today.
The global Museum Day is being marked in museums across Georgia. The date coincides with the Georgian National Museum (GNM) network's celebration of National Museum Week, which launched yesterday.
The Museum of Fine Arts, a member of the GNM, will be the central location of the Museum Week program today, as it opens its doors for the display Avant Garde 1900-1937.
Focusing on avant-garde artists from Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Poland and Italy, the exhibition will involve around 100 works of visual art as well as "archival material", posters and books belonging to the avant-garde style.
The Museum of Fine Arts will be the central Georgian venue for the May 18 celebration of International Museum Day. Photo from the Georgian National Museum/Facebook.
The exhibition will illustrate "revolutionary changes within the first decade of the 20th century" that saw the emergence of varying artistic theories and directions influenced by global technological and industrial developments.
The list of nearly 20 artists featured in the event includes Kiril Zdanevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Niko Pirosmani, Lado Gudiashvili and Kazimir Malevich.
The exhibition will specifically pay homage to Ilya Zdanevich (known by his artistic pseudonym Iliazd), a 20th Century Georgian artist of Polish origin.
In an effort to illustrate the life and artistic work of the creator, Zdanevich's correspondence with celebrated Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani will be put on display for visitors of today's occasion, which starts at 6pm.
All GNM museums across Georgia will offer free entrance during National Museum Week, which will conclude on May 21.
National Museum Week aunched on May 17 with an exhibition dedicated to 120 years since the birth of late Georgian painter Ketevan Magalashvili.
Tomorrow, the Week continues at the Ivane Javakhishvili Samtske-Javakheti History Museum in the city Akhaltsikhe in southwestern Georgia.
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