Salome Rigvava Personal Exhibition: 1-30 April 2017

The Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Tbilisi, Georgia, is exhibiting the works of Salome Rigvava from 1-30 April 2017.

Salome Rigvava (1988-) is a young Georgian painter, born in Gagra, Abkhazia, who has been exhibiting her works abroad. After a 4-year break, for the first time in Georgia, Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art will host her first personal exhibition.

Works by Salome Rigvava are in private collections in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and in Georgia. Rigvava completed her studies on a full scholarship at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design with professor Holger Bunk in 2014. Prior to that, she studied painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art. She lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia, and was an Artist in Residence at the Art Mora Studio Program in Ridgefield, New Jersey during the summer 2016.

Rigvava says, “Her ‘Apple Syndrome’ is one of the series of paintings I’ve been working on since 2010. I started painting with oil paints on paper and then continued on large canvases. The series’ title references Biblical forbidden fruit. I focus on this symbol not from the perspective of original sin resulting from the fall of man, but rather to me, it’s an allegory of the exploration of the unknown. It’s an act of being daring, challenging stereotypes, and seeking the truth about one’s own self and the world around you.” She has more ideas to expand this series, with the goal to further her technique of conveying different psychological states.

Other series in this collection include the ‘Cheesecake’ series and the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ series.

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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