To introduce Georgian
National Museum Week and the International Museum Day the Shalva Amiranashvili
Museum of Fine Arts commenced the exhibition Avant-Garde 1900-1937, which runs
from 18 May to 8 July 2016.
The museum describes
avant-garde a ‘the stage of modernist art encompassing revolutionary changes
within the first decade of the 20th century. It’s development resulted from
ideological changes in the industrial and technological sectors and from
specail anthropological activities. This is the period of innovations and
conceptions of new artistic systems and theories. The coexistence of totally
different movements and their parallel development gives the special dynamism
to the avant-garde’s fine art.’
The exhibition has
collected works from Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Italian
avant-garde artists. It is dedicated to the memory of Ilya Zdanevich – Iliazd –
a Georgian artist, poet, and literary critic of Polish origin. Iliazd
(1894-1975) represented all nations and cultures in the avant-garde sphere,
from Georgian, Polish, Russian, and French heritages.
About 30
artists are showcased in the exhibition, with about 80 pieces of art, and some
posters and portfolios, some exhibited for the first time to the general
public.
The
artists include Mikhail Bilanivishvili (1901-1934), Vladimir Boberman
(1897-1977), Lev Bruni (1894-1948), Robert Falk (1886-1958), Natalia Goncharova
(1888-1962), Lado Gudiashvili (1896-1980), Michael Gurevich (1904-1943), David
Kakabadze (1889-1952), Vasily Kandinsky (1861-1944), Evgeni Kibrik (1906-1978),
Shalva Kikodze (1894-1921), Alexei Kruchyonikh (1886-1968), Mikhail Larionov
(1881-1964), Osvaldo Lichini (1894-1958), Kazimir Malevich (1879-1933), Adolf
Milman (1886/88-1930), Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), Ervand Qochar (1899-1979), Kliment
Redko (1897-1956), Olga Rozanova (1886-1918), Alexander Shevchenko (1883-1948),
Vasily Shukhaev (1887-1973), Alexander Tyshler (1898-1981), Nicolay Viting
(1910-1991), Alexander Volkov (1886-1956), Zygmunt Waliszewski (1897-1936), and
Kirill Zdanevich (1892-1969).
One of
my favourite pieces on display is Portrait of Kolau Chernjavski by Kirill
Zdanevich (below).
Below is
Vasily Kandinski’s Picture of Circle, First Non Objective (1911).
Below is
Olga Rozanova’s A Little Duck’s Nest … of Bad Words (1913).
Below is
Girl With a Balloon by Niko Pirosmani (date unknown).
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of
Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet
(2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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