FEAST OR FAMINE

The National Gallery in Tbilisi, Georgia, is holding the ‘Green’ exhibition dedicated to the annual World Environment Day on June 26. This is the first time that the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery of the Georgian National Museum network has hosted a group exhibition on the topic of ecology. The exhibition includes works of many local artists. Above is Koka Tskhvediani’s (1957-) ‘Protective Shell’ (2016) and below is Uta Bekala’s (1974-) ‘Berikaoba’ (2015). Below is ‘Hopscotch’ (2016) by Rocko Iremashvili (1979-), ‘Touch It’ (2016) by Tamuna Gurgenidze (1990-) and ‘Is it Future?’ (2016) by Liza Chichinadze (1992-), both of the Gogi-Alexi-Meskhishvili Design School. Below is Iliko Zautashvili’s (1952-) ‘Big Green Nothing’ (2013), Sophia Cherkezishvili’s (1979-) ‘The fence’ (2015) and ‘Market’ (2015) by the Bouillon Group. Below is 19 miniatures from the ‘Greens’ series (1985) by Karlo Kacharava (1964-1994), ‘Without Nar...

The Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi is holding an art exhibition called ‘I See With My Fingers’ from 12 June to 1 July 2016 in conjunction with the Foliant art centre. The young artists have eye disorders and hence their artworks reflects works and installations that are tactile or mobile, or filled with light or sound. This has resulted in an extremely sensory exhibition. Curated by Ketevan Matabeli, the exhibition is organized by the Apolon Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, students from the Public School for Blind Children No. 202, and students from the Elene Akhviediani Gallery studio and the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery art studio. Most of the art works are dedicated to the 850th anniversary of the Georgian poet, Shota Rustaveli, and some use the techniques of theatrical sound and visual effects. Also, for the first time in Georgia, for those who ‘see with their fingers’ the exhibition presents wine bottle labels written in Br...