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11/07/2024 art
In 1929, when Vano Enukidze arrived in Paris, he had already graduated from the Faculty of Socio-Economic Sciences of Tbilisi State University. Together with other young people, Enukidze had been involved in fighting for Georgia's independence, and, seeing the situation worsening in his homeland, he realized it was becoming increasingly risky for him to stay. Without a doubt, he intended to return to Georgia, but circumstances prevented him from ever doing so.
07/07/2024 architecture
The Gelati Mosaic adorns the domed roof of the apse in the main temple. The solemn, monumental, and representative composition, on a golden background, depicts the Virgin and Child seated on a richly decorated podium, with Archangels on either side. Although the area of this scene is relatively small within the vast space of the temple, it is evident that the interior is dominated by the significance of the images, their color palate, and the amazing shimmer of the mosaic stones, all of which helps to create a spiritual impulse that seems to shine down from Heaven itself. During masses, this atmosphere is further enhanced by the presence of other sacred items.
05/07/2024 art
Natela Iankoshvili was an artist entirely absorbed in her creative work. Her paintings represent different stages in her life. She didn’t have a child of her own, and considered her paintings her children. In each of Iankoshvili's works, be it a portrait, a landscape, an easel graphic, or an illustration for a book, the artist's stubborn, bold, firm, and complex character seems fully embodied. Her husband, the writer Lado Avaliani, who studied with Natela Iankoshvili at the Tbilisi Art Academy, believed that her art carried existential importance for her. As proof of their unwavering love that began within the walls of the Academy, Lado Avaliani gave up painting and, with the income from his writing career, fully supported the development of his wife's extraordinary talent.
28/06/2024 architecture
Ikalto Monastery is located in the Kakheti region, 10 km from the city of Telavi. It was founded in the sixth century by Zenon, a monk from the “Thirteen Assyrian Fathers”. In the early Middle Ages, Ikalto was one of the largest monasteries in eastern Georgia. It is believed that in the 1120s, the eminent churchman and theologian Arsen of Ikalto (Ikaltoeli) established an academy there, which functioned until the late Middle Ages.
16/06/2024 architecture
Khobi Monastery is located in Samegrelo region (western Georgia), a short distance from the town of Khobi. The monastery once served as the burial place for the local nobles - the Dadiani family, the ruling house of Odishi Principality (present-day Samegrelo).
31/05/2024 history
Devastated by the aftermath of World War I, the future renowned Georgian artist Lado Gudiashvili seeks out Niko Pirosmani in order to help him procure financial support from Tbilisi’s Union of Artists. He finds Niko, but it is of little use.
24/05/2024 architecture
This archaeological site, located near the village of Nokalakevi in the Samegrelo province, boasts a rich history dating back to Antiquity. The first fort, known in Georgian chronicles as Tsikhegoji, is believed to have been established there as early as the third century BC. Over time, it evolved into a significant fortified city referred to by early Byzantine historians as Archaeopolis, and described as a "large and ancient fort" in Justinian’s Novels. Serving as the capital of the kingdom of Lazica from the fourth to eighth centuries AD, the city held considerable strategic importance.
17/05/2024 art
Zygmunt (Zyga) Waliszewski (1897-1936) was a Polish artist who lived in Georgia from 1903 to 1920. His name is associated with the history of the Georgian avant-garde of the 1910s. In the second half of his life, he was a prominent figure on the Polish art scene. Waliszewski lived and worked in Paris in 1924-1931.
10/05/2024 history
In 813, the Presiding Prince Ashot I Curopolate fled the Arab oppression in Tbilisi and went to the southern Georgian province of Klarjeti. There, he established the new principality of Tao-Klarjeti. This principality played a crucial role in the history of Georgia during the ninth and tenth centuries, although Prince Ashot was not the first to set up home there. Before Ashot, men and women who sought seclusion for a ‘holy life’ had traveled to Klarjeti; monks and nuns led by medieval Georgian monastic leader Gregory of Khandzta (759–861). The intensive monastic colonization of these lands was one of the strongest factors that contributed to the rise of the Principality/Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti.
26/04/2024 architecture
The Church of the Mother of God is located in the village of Metekhi, in Kartli Province. Legend attributes its foundation to the fifth-century Georgian king Vakhtang Gorgasali, although there is no archaeological or architectural evidence to support such an early date. The extant church was built in the first half of the thirteenth century and restored several times in the late Middle Ages and Modern times.
22/04/2024 architecture
Ushguli is a community in Upper Svaneti. It is one of the highest mountain settlements in Europe, and is situated at a height of 2,200m above sea level. Four villages make up the community of Ushguli: Murkmeli, Chazhashi, Chvibiani, and Zhibiani, which follow the Enguri Valley, beginning from the headwaters of the River Enguri at the foot of Mount Shkhara, and are distributed along one vertical axis like a string of beads. The Ushguli community is bounded to the east by the vast Caucasus Mountains, whose branches border the valley to the north and to the south with the Svaneti mountain range. Accordingly, the villages of the community are bordered on three sides by mountains, and may be viewed against the backdrop of the breathtaking Mount Shkhara, perpetually covered with snow, which is enclosed by a valley .
18/04/2024 art
Lado Gudiashvili (1896-1980) is one of the most prominent representatives of Georgian modernist art and the Tbilisi avant-garde, famed for his creative vision and unique style of painting. Lado Gudiashvili was born and raised in a historic neighborhood of Tbilisi’s multicultural milieu at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1910, Gudiashvili enrolled at the School of Painting and Sculpture, which had been established in Tbilisi in 1902 under the auspices of the Caucasian Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts. His teacher there was the renowned Tbilisi caricaturist Oscar Schmerling. In addition to honing his skills at painting and drawing, under the guidance of Iacob Nikoladze Gudiashvili also delved into the art of sculpture.
11/04/2024 history
Ilia Chavchavadze was born in 1837. At that time, Georgia had already ceased to exist as a political entity, not with even a minimal degree of sovereignty. By the manifesto of 1801 of Alexander I, the Kingdom of Kartli -Kakheti officially joined the Russian Empire. Soon, the Kingdom of Imereti fell to the same fate.
05/04/2024 art
The formation and evolution of socialist realist art in Georgia commenced during the 1930s and 1940s. However, its ideological foundations in Russia were seen between 1922 and 1932. Critical realism (peredvizhniks), constructivism, neoclassicism, and French classical realism conditioned the eclectic visual language typical of socialist realism and its utopian ideology.
28/03/2024 cinema & theatre
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Renowned for his daring approach to filmmaking, Mikhail Kalatozov redefined the possibilities of visual storytelling, leaving an ineradicable mark in the history of cinema. The techniques he used back in the 1950s and 60s, with his longtime collaborator, cinematographer Sergey Urusevsky, are unique; they stand out, even by today’s standards. His cinematic style is marked by several distinct characteristics that set his work apart and continue to captivate audiences decades after their release.