In Freedom Square, in Tbilisi, Georgia, stands a 35-metre (almost 115-foot)
high concrete plinth. On top of the plinth is a golden statue of St. George
slaying a dragon. It was previously called Lenin Square with a statue of Vladimir
Lenin. It was named Freedom Square in 1918.
The Square is actually a large roundabout with 5 intersections in the
centre of the city, on the edge of Tbilisi’s Old City. And the golden statue is
a popular tourist attraction, as well as the site of public gatherings, events,
and concerts.
Acclaimed Tbilisi-born artist, Zurab Konstantines dze Tsereteli (1934-)
created the Freedom Square – or Liberty Square – statue.
The statue of Lenin was removed in August 1991, and replaced with Tsereteli’s
golden statue on 23 November 2006. Tsereteli called it Good Defeats Evil, and
first created it as a model bronze statue in 1990. He created several models
and several versions of the sculpture. One is on the northern lawn of the
United Nations headquarters in New York.
Two bronze models of Good Defeats Evil are displayed in the Zurab Tsereteli
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Tbilisi.
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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