Post-Soviet Georgian art transformation in focus of Karvasla exhibition
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The state of Georgian art scene during the post-Soviet transformation will be the subject explored by an exhibition involving local artists and foreign curators at the Tbilisi History Museum tomorrow.
The venue also known as Karvasla will host works by 24 Georgian artists, created from 1985-1999.
Titled State of Play, the program for the display will be held in frames of the Georgian National Museum (GNM) project Contemporary Art Gallery.
Artists Thea Gvetadze, Temo Javakhishvili, Mamuka Japaridze and Kote Jincharadze are featured in the display. Photo: Contemporary Art Gallery.
Organisers said it would feature artists whose contributions are recognised in the "transformation of the artistic process and visual art” in the post-Soviet Georgia.
The works selected for the exhibition were curated by former Biennale of Sydney and Getty Research Institute curator Charles Merewether.
Merewether and Bucharest Biennale curator Beral Madra will lead visitors through a tour of the display on its opening.
The tour will precede a range of displays and events, including a roundtable talk by invited speaker and curator Victor Misiano about Art in Georgia in 1985-1999.
Georgian Artists in Berlin, a documentary by filmmaker Levan Adamia, will be screened for visitors to narrate the work of three Georgian artists.
It will feature Koka Ramishvili, Keti Kapanadze and Mamuka Japaridze and mark the ongoing anniversary of the diplomatic and cultural relations between Georgia and Germany.
The subject of the display will also be reflected in a display of photographs by Guram Tsibakhashvili, while organisers also unveil a catalogue of the exhibited artwork.
Public lectures of the event will also see Karvasla art historian Keti Trapaidze talk about the art of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the display, for visiting students.
Other subjects discussed at the event will include Visual Interface of Conflict and Trauma in Georgia during the two turbulent decades.
The Contemporary Art Gallery project was established to "create sustainable platform” for local and international cooperation in the field of contemporary art in Georgia’s capital.
Events hosted in frame of the project in Tbilisi include Field of Flowers, Space of Diffusion and Shaping Identity.
The program for the exhibition and talks within State of Play will run at Karvasla through January 10.
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