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Avant-Garde 1900-1937 art exhibition in Georgia





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).



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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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