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GLIMPSE IN GALLERY - AVTO VARAZI

Avto Varazi (1926-1977) was a Georgian artist. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Georgian Technical University. In 1948, he enrolled on a doctoral program at the Institute of Art History in Tbilisi. For many years he worked as a designer of museum exhibitions. As a pioneer of the 1960s nonconformist movement, he explored the principles of early Western Modernism. Avto Varazi’s universe is easily recognizable with its emotiveness, distinctive vision, and unique compositional structure, and also for the prevailing melancholy of existential solitude. His works are kept at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Non-Conformist Art Collection of the Zimmerli Art Museum (USA), as well as at various museums in France and Greece and in private collections. “I remember how my first ever exhibition failed. I had chosen one of the works from my colored pencil drawings and hung it on the wall before the guests arrived. The visitors came and left without even noticing my work. I was heartbroken, and in doubt about whether I could draw at all. I was five years old at the time.” (A. Varazi, Memoirs) The host of the exhibition: Tsinandali Museum Music by Erekle Getsadze