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Ketevan Kintsurashvili

Ketevan Kintsurashvii (ქეთევან კინწურაშვილი) is an art historian and researcher of 20th century and contemporary art. She has worked on books published in Tbilisi, St. Petersburg, New York, and Warsaw. Ketevan Kintsurashvili has authored books about David Kakabadze, Niko Pirosmani, Kirill and Ilya Zdanevich, Petre Otskheli, and many others. With the support of international scientific programs, at various times she has conducted research and delivered lectures at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley), Yale University (New Haven), Balliol College (Oxford), and many more. She is also the author of a 20th century art textbook. Kintsurashvili was awarded the Order of Queen Tamar - "For special personal contribution to the research of Georgian art and its promotion  on an international scale."


Articles

19/04/2024

IRAKLI PARJIANI: VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF ANNUNCIATION

Irakli Parjiani’s oeuvre is all about attempting to decode the inscrutable. This is precisely why he kept revisiting the theme of the Annunciation — easily the central subject underlying most of his creations. Countless pieces inspired by this theme are scattered among numerous museums and private collections, and for the time being it would be virtually impossible to estimate their total number.

19/04/2024

DAVID KAKABADZE

Despite never having boarded a plane, David Kakabadze “flew over” his native land at an altitude of a “bird in flight,” and captured landscapes that ended up becoming symbolic representations of Georgia – truly resembling bird’s-eye views.

19/04/2024

LEVAN TSUTSKIRIDZE

Levan Tsutskiridze’s (1926 - 2021) oeuvre deals principally with literature. However, considering the uninterrupted monumentality of each of his pieces, he should not be labeled as a mere illustrator. In each of his paintings, Levan Tsutskiridze emerges as a sculptor, characterized through exceptional mastery of the principles of plasticity.

19/04/2024

BLUE TABLECLOTH

The blue tablecloth represents one of the best manifestations of the organic fusion of eastern and western origins in Georgian culture. It was used to cover the tables of feasts, or was spread directly on the ground (such tablecloths have a narrow and elongated shape). It used to be loaded with festive dishes, food, and drinks. The cheerful drawings on the textile filled guests with a celebratory spirit from the very beginning.

19/04/2024

LEVAN LAGIDZE'S COMPOSITIONS

Over twenty years Lagidze has drawn abstractions by placing rectangular shapes or sections on rectangular canvases, in this way creating his distinctive handwriting that is familiar to everyone. However, he is not the one who discovered the rectangles or the squares.

19/04/2024

THE ZDANEVICH BROTHERS

The biographies of the Zdanevich brothers are as rich with the names of persons and events as their comprehensive works are in the fields of poetry, drawing, graphic painting, prose and theory. Their works have proven to be so difficult to fit within any existing Genre that they invented the additional term “Orchestral”, which describes a notion that unites in itself diverse elements, ideas, images, words, letters and colors.

19/04/2024

GOGI CHAGELISHVILI

Gogi Chagelishvili creates artworks in a variety of genres and styles, including portraits, landscapes, still lives, multi-figure scenes, and abstraction, amongst others. Nevertheless, none of his works possesses a descriptive nature. Through them, the artist does not express reality but rather his emotions, which turn into a story.

19/04/2024

VERA PAGAVA - "DIALOGUE" WITH THE SUN

In 1965, an album of Vera Pagava’s sketches that included small-scale pencil drawings was published in Paris. Therein, by use of dots drawn with a tip of a graphite pencil, the artist presents the entire richness of nature. Through application of the simplest materials, she not only designs shapes that are perceived by the eye, but also makes us sense their dynamism, movement, and even hear the rustle of the leaves. And while contemplating these minimalistic graphic compositions, we can feel the light that is distributed throughout the space.

19/04/2024

FELIX VARLAMISHVILI (aka VARLA)

Felix Varlamishvili (aka Varla) was born in 1903 in Kutaisi. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1922-27) and in 1928 left Georgia, arriving in Paris in 1929. Between 1948 and 1952 he lived in Buenos Aires and died in Paris in 1986.

19/04/2024

SOLIKO VIRSALADZE - A GREAT THEATER ARTIST

Simon (Soliko) Virsaladze was born at the end of 1908, on New Year's Eve, and as if from Hoffmann's fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice,"this real-life Drosselmeyer, the great master of creating magical New Year's decorations, appeared to the world.

19/04/2024

ARTIST IOSEB (SOSO) GABASHVILI

Ioseb Gabashvili's creative work unconsciously occupies a place in the thoughts of many people from an early age, since he produced impressive illustrations for Georgian fairy tales and children's books. The books he illustrated will be remembered as works of art, leaving lasting and significant artistic impressions that will remain with the reader forever. Nevertheless, Soso Gabashvili's creative work is far more comprehensive and diverse. He was a graphic artist, painter, and stage and film designer.

19/04/2024

THE TIRELESS EMBROIDERER. VERA PAGAVA

At the end of the 50s/beginning of the 60s Vera Pagava created a unique graphic style, which she mostly employed for plein-air landscape paintings and occasionally for the production of still lifes.The artist utilized this method to produce dozens of lyrical drawings that capture the fleeting essence of nature. Pagava drew dots and created images on blank pieces of paper using just a pencil (graphite).

AUTHORS AT ATINATI

Alex Fisher

George Kekelidze

Ketevan Shavgulidze

Nino Lashkhi

Khatuna Khabuliani

David Khoshtaria

Ilia Tavberidze

Ketevan Mikeladze

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