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Dive into Pirosmani's wondrous world!

Pirosmani painted scenes of his everyday life.

His works show animals or common people, such as a fisherman, a cook or a postman. There are depictions of lavish banquets, celebrations and processions.

His still lifes of culinary delicacies were often commissioned works, produced amongst others for taverns.

Pirosmani’s paintings transform the everyday into the exceptional. Human and animal figures often look out at the viewer in a manner both insistent and detached, yet are depicted with tenderness and dignity—and with no shortage of humour.

Endowed with great sensitivity, Pirosmani created iconic images of rare expressive power.

Discover Georgia's most famous artist and immerse yourself in the world of this enigmatic free spirit, a mythical figure in the history of early modern art.

The exhibition «Niko Pirosmani» is on display from September 17, 2023 through January 28.

Tickets are available online or directly on site.

Credits: Niko Pirosmani, The Collection of Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts of Georgia, © Infinitart Foundation

Video: Boros Agency

https://youtu.be/-B3tKr9-xFs?si=wiiEVepnJpTHmN2p

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Why is Marc Chagall known as the painter of Love? Chagall an orthodox Jew, was born in Vitebsk, Russia (now Belarus) on the 7th of July 1887 as Moshe Segal. He was the eldest of 9 children. In 1910 Chagall moved to Paris, where he changed his name to the more French sounding Marc Chagall and in 1911 moved into his own studio in La Ruche, the legendary Parisian artist colony. On 25th of July 1915 Marc Chagall married Bella Rosenfeld in Vitebsk.

By 1919 Marc Chagall had set up the Vitebsk School of Fine Arts with artists Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. But things did not go well and Chagall soon upped and left. Shortly afterwards, Malevich renamed the Art School the Suprematist Academy. By the 1930's Marc Chagall’s paintings were selling well. In 1933 a number of Chagall’s paintings were publicly burnt by the Nazis, outside of the Mannheim Art Gallery. In 1937, on the orders of the Nazi regime, all Chagall’s works were removed from German museums, three were shown in the notorious Degenerate Art Exhibition in 1937.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, Chagall moved his family to the United States.

In New York Pierre Matisse, the son of artist Henri Matisse, organised Chagall’s first exhibition in America, in November 1941, at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York. In the late 1940’s exhibitions were held of Chagall’s work in New York, London, Zurich and Bern in Switzerland. They were all hugely successful. But Marc Chagall longed to return to France, in 1948 he left America for good. In 1950 he moved to Vence in the South of France and intermittently met up with Matisse and Picasso both of whom had studios nearby.

In 1951 he married Valentina Brodsky. Their marriage gave him new energy later he visited Chartres Cathedral to study medieval stained-glass window painting. This inspired him and in 1959 he created stained glass windows for the north apse of Metz Cathedral in France. 1964 saw Marc Chagall complete the window of the Good Samaritan for the memorial to John D Rockefeller Junior and the Peace window for the United Nations building in New York. Marc Chagall died at his home in St Paul de Vence at the age of 97, on the 28th of March 1985.

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Victoria Olt is a traditional artist whose ethereal paintings blend classical realism with the vibrant colours of contemporary art.

Employing mixed mediums, Victoria creates windows into the human soul, exposing all the endlessly complicated emotions we try our best to hide. They offer solace to whoever needs it, and help find a sense of belonging in an otherwise perplexing universe.

Her works are shown in various galleries and held in private collections all around the world.

She was born and spent her childhood in Estonia then moved to Spain where studied fine arts in the University of Seville, she also worked in Madrid and Amsterdam, and spent the height of the pandemic on the isolated island of Nevis, before returning to Estonia late 2021.

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Hannah Hoch

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Wangechi Mutu is a contemporary Kenyan artist noted for her work conflating gender, race, art history, and personal identity. Creating complex collages, videos, sculptures, and performances, Mutu’s work features recurring mysterious leitmotifs such as masked women and snake-like tendrils. Her pastiche-like practice combines a variety of source material and textures to explore consumerism and excess: for a 2005 work titled Cancer of the Uterus, Mutu employed a medical pathology diagram, facial features cut from a magazine, fur, and a heavy application of black glitter to create an eerily distorted face. The almost science fiction-like nature of her imagery has placed her work within the realm of Afrofuturism, and her practice is often discussed as providing an alternate course of history for people of African descent. Deeply concerned with Western commercialism, Mutu has explained that “a lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.” Born on June 22, 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya, she received her BFA from Cooper Union in 1996, and subsequently her MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2000. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including a major retrospective that opened in the Nasher Museum of Art in North Carolina in 2013, and traveled globally. In 2019, her exhibition The NewOnes, will free Us, was featured as the inaugural Facade Commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It consisted of four bronze sculptures, individually titled The Seated I, II, III, and IV, that sat in each niche on the front of the museum which had previously remained empty for 117 years. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Wangechi Mutu

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Man Ray

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Robert Rauschenberg

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Robert Rauschenberg worked in a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, and performance, over the span of six decades. He emerged on the American art scene at the time that Abstract Expressionism was dominant, and through the course of his practice he challenged the gestural abstract painting and the model of the heroic, self-expressive artist championed by that movement.

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Nan Goldin

This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993. There will be a revised introduction by Goldin, and for the first time the voices of those whose stories are represented. Now being released at a time when the discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving, The Other Side traces some of the history that informs this new visibility. The first photographs in the book are from the 1970s, when Goldin lived in Boston with a group of drag queens and documented their glamour and vulnerability. In the early eighties, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the nineties, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin, Bangkok and the Philippines, photographing their public personas while showing their real lives backstage. Goldin’s newest photographs are intimate portraits, imbued with tenderness, of some of her most beloved friends.

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Ryan James Schultz (born July 4, 1977) is an American mixed martial artist. A professional from 2003 to 2013, he has competed in the WEC, IFL, and Japan's World Victory Road. He was the last International Fight League Lightweight Champion, competing for Matt Lindland's Portland Wolfpack.

A true product of art school Shultz talks art world bullshit like the best of them. “My work marries the present with the past” he says in his Bravo video, going on to describe the surface quality of his paintings to that of old masters. Ha! He also describes the genre of realism as an “important medium”. Here's hoping he doesn't get very far.