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GURAM (HITA) KUTATELADZE

Artist in focus • Guram (Hita) Kutateladze (გურამ ქუთათელაძე 1924-1979) was born in Tbilisi into the family of artist Apolon Kutateladze. He studied in David Kakabadze’s workshop at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, and later enrolled at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow. “The Magic of the Landscape” is the anniversary exhibition of Guram (Hita) Kutateladze dedicated to the 100th birthday of the artist. The “images” of Hita Kutateladze’s works comprise the landscape model – large landscape spaces shaped from the very outset with grandiose mountains, purple and yellow autumnal fields, villages “thrown” onto meadows that are burned by the August heat, green swathes of land, loose soil and golden carpets of trees, fragments of a city entangled in the midst of trees. This paradise-like universe of Georgia turned into a model of perfection for the artist, whereby he utilized every artistic resource: color, shape, line, point, light, and mood to the greatest possible extent. Through the application of a “waterfall” of tints, the artist creates shapes, images, energy, emotion, and position, where the manifestation of color, its brightness and capabilities, reveal the most active and boldest range of painting. Organized and hosted by Georgian National Museum and Baia Gallery Curator: Baia Tsikoridze