Exhibition Avtandil Gurgenidze in Kiev Automatic translate

From January 22 to February 01, 2013 the Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine (Kiev, Glubochitskaya St., 17) will host an exhibition of works by the artist Avtandil Gurgenidze (Tbilisi, Georgia) under the title ART AVIA.

The works presented at the exhibition are not quite standard. The surface for the paintings of the author served as hygiene packages that are issued to passengers on board the aircraft.

The exhibition will feature about 100 works by the author.

The first exhibition of the ART AVIA project will be held in Ukraine. Further plans include similar projects in Georgian and European galleries.

The project partner in Ukraine was Ukraine International Airlines.

Avtandil Gurgenidze is a well-known Georgian monumental artist, photographer and tourist guide. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Member of more than 50 art exhibitions in Georgia and Europe. Winner of numerous photo and art contests and winner of many grants.

In addition to painting, she is fond of monumental paintings. Its subjects are: the Nadzaladevi metro station in Tbilisi, the weather station in the Kazbek mountains at an altitude of 3750 m, the ski stations of the Gudauri resort, many streets, squares and street objects in Georgia and Europe. Artist website: www.avtogurgenidze.ge

The official opening of the exhibition will take place on January 22, 2013. At the Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine at the address: Kiev, st. Glubochitskaya, 17. Beginning at 18-00. Media accreditation: 050-888-89-34, 067-193-13-50, burnevich@gmail.com

From the author:

“The desire to draw arises constantly. It is not subject to reason and common sense, it lives in every second of my life. This is instinct, a call, the content of things, the essence of my existence.

It is hard to resist looking at the surface and structure. When you have pencils or markers at hand and you understand that it’s just a moment - a new image, a new plot, new color combinations will appear.

I travel often, so airplanes are one of the places where I have been waiting for take-off or landing for a long time.

Traveling is inspiring. And inspire not only artists. Such is the essence in the sky and in these iron birds - to fill with dreams every person, everyone who is detached from the Earth and is in an unusual state for us - the state of flight.

Once again, fastened my seat belts and looked into the window, I felt that I really want to make a sketch. Let it be small, very conditional, but it is obligatory here and now and it is in the airplane that it should transfer its internal state to paper.

Eyes looked for a surface, a clean space on which to draw lines, put color spots, make a few strokes. Nearby, I did not find anything except the usual on-board set for passengers, among which I noticed standard hygiene packages with an excellent surface, so convenient and suitable for my manifestation of creative thoughts. So there was a series of works on packages presented at the ART AVIA exhibition in Kiev. Some of them painted directly in the sky. The rest was created after landing.

I continue to study the aviation theme, to look for new air surfaces and planes for paintings. I hope to paint several planes in the future. ”

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Avtandil Gurgenidze