See pioneers of 20th century Georgian art in Tbilisi display

If you are in Tbilisi, you are invited to learn about pioneers of 20th century Georgian art and see some of their most fascinating works at the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts starting tomorrow.

Under the title Georgian Painting of the First Half of the Twentieth Century the exhibition will feature masterpieces from 18 celebrated artists.

The exhibits will include works by Kirill Zdanevich, Ketevan Magalashvili, Elene Akhvlediani, Petre Otskheli and Sergo Kobuladze.

Artwork by Georgian painter Kirill Zdanevich (1892—1969) will be part of the display. Photo: Georgian National Museum.

The display will seek to present creators whose work "laid the foundations” for previous century art in the country, said a release by the Georgian National Museum (GNM), a managing network of state museum venues across Georgia.

The GNM preview said the exhibition would bring together some of the greatest exhibits from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts.

[The event will present] diverse contemporary artistic styles which are in accord with the common European artistic process and simultaneously, are characterized by clearly expressed national peculiarities”, announced organisers of the display.

Painter Mose Toidze is considered one of the founders of professional education in painting in Georgia. Photo: Georgian National Museum.

Over the recent years the Museum of Fine Arts has featured works by some of the most acclaimed local and foreign artists of the 20th Century in its displays.

These included an exhibition celebrating the legacy of Georgian and foreign avant-garde artists within the frame of International Museum Day celebrations in May last year.

Georgian art enthusiasts celebrated 120 years since the birth of painter Shalva Kikodze in 2015. Photo: Georgian National Museum.

Creations by pioneering Georgian painters of the last century were also exhibited for the public within the display Museum of Fine Arts — Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow last month.

The exhibition Georgian Painting of the First Half of the Twentieth Century will run at the Museum of Fine Arts through May 13.