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GEORGIAN MODERNISM AND TBILISI AVANT-GARDE

Georgian Modernism and Tbilisi Avant-Garde (1910-1932) - The exhibition presents Georgian Modernism and the Tbilisi Avant-Garde of 1910–1932. The curators Nana Kipiani and Nana Shervashidze decided to prioritize exhibiting the artworks in order to show as many works as possible — well-known and unknown, or familiar but not in the general modernist context, as well as to demonstrate the artistic diversity of the period. Documentary material revealing these decades' historical, social, cultural, and political contexts is underrepresented. This was conditioned by the presence of a permanent exhibition of Niko Pirosmani's paintings in one of the museum halls. Nevertheless, this made it possible to intervene in the permanent exhibition, just as Iliazd did in his album dedicated to Melnikova, but only for the duration of this exhibition. As such, the curators of the exhibition decided to intervene in the Pirosmani exhibition space with works by those representatives of the Tbilisi Avant-Garde who had discovered Niko Pirosmani, and who managed to preserve his works for future generations. As a result of their art being banned since the 1930s, their names have gradually been erased from memory and forgotten for over 70 years. Curators: Nana Kipiani, Nana Shervashidze Co-Curator: Mariam Dvali