06 July 2005
Georgian Pop Art Classic
today I bought this assemblage from 1964 of Rustavi based Artist Otari Chkhartishvili. I am amazed of the period of the so called "Anti- Soviet-Art", called so by Soviet bureaucrats and officials then. The Artists understood themselfs as Pop Artists but got labeled as Formalists, wich could be then a constant threat to an artistic career, even prosecution. Lots of those artists were never allowed to join a show. It was a big honor to me too today, to listen to the weird history of Georgian Art in the time of Stalin, Krushtshov and Breshnev and to have wine with Otari and Amiran Kakabadze, the son of David Kakabadze.
Otari Chkhartishvili, Class of 1953, 1964
There is an interesting site on David Kakabadze's works and his life by Ketevan Kintsurashvili:
http://www.z-kkal.iatp.ge/page1e.html
Here is a landscape "Demonstration in Imeretia. 1942" and a exerpt from above website
"To satisfy requirements Kakabadze included the image of an electric power plant into Imeretian “carpet-like” landscapes. They did not like them too on the ground that the builders of Socialism were not represented there. In one of the pictures, under Imereti mountain he painted demonstrators with streamers (“Meeting in Imereti”, 1942). On the streamers there were portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Beria. It is a historic canvas. After the death of Stalin, when Khruschev announced a fight against “personality cult”, on Kakabadze’s canvas in the museum depository Beria’s and Stalin’s portraits were dyed over."
As the Demonstration is painted completely different, and the image gets something very ironic, I could think: Yeah, a Georgian was the first POSTMODERNIST ! 1942 !
Otari Chkhartishvili, Class of 1953, 1964
There is an interesting site on David Kakabadze's works and his life by Ketevan Kintsurashvili:
http://www.z-kkal.iatp.ge/page1e.html
Here is a landscape "Demonstration in Imeretia. 1942" and a exerpt from above website
"To satisfy requirements Kakabadze included the image of an electric power plant into Imeretian “carpet-like” landscapes. They did not like them too on the ground that the builders of Socialism were not represented there. In one of the pictures, under Imereti mountain he painted demonstrators with streamers (“Meeting in Imereti”, 1942). On the streamers there were portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Beria. It is a historic canvas. After the death of Stalin, when Khruschev announced a fight against “personality cult”, on Kakabadze’s canvas in the museum depository Beria’s and Stalin’s portraits were dyed over."
As the Demonstration is painted completely different, and the image gets something very ironic, I could think: Yeah, a Georgian was the first POSTMODERNIST ! 1942 !
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This art assemblage and the history and David K's photographs are fascinating to my "western" eyes, thank you!
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Kakabadze is in fact known as a influential painter, he lived with a bunch of other Georgian Artists in the Paris of the 20s, and returned against the advise of his brother in 1927 to Georgia, where he suffered from the political circumstances of Soviet Georgia. By the way, in 1923 he invented the stereoscopic movie system, on wich later hold the USSR a patent on his invention.
At the Web are only a few of his paintings, but in Autumn will be a big show with 150 of his works in Tbilisi, from the time in France and from the time in Georgia. I make lots of photos then.
Here is an interesting site on David Kakabadze:
http://www.z-kkal.iatp.ge/page1e.html
At the Web are only a few of his paintings, but in Autumn will be a big show with 150 of his works in Tbilisi, from the time in France and from the time in Georgia. I make lots of photos then.
Here is an interesting site on David Kakabadze:
http://www.z-kkal.iatp.ge/page1e.html
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