EXHIBITION: National Art Gallery hosts exhibit of BSEC artists’ works (panarmenian.net)

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On Feb. 4 BCES artists exhibition was launched at Armenian National Art Gallery within the framework of "Preservation and reconstruction of cultural and historical monuments of BSEC countries" round table discussions

Armenian National Art Gallery and National Historical Museum archives featured works of artists from 12 countries. Among the exhibits were works by Georgian artists Elena Akhvlediani and David Kutateladze, Ukrainian artists Maria Primachenko and Tatiana Yablonskaya, antic ceramics from Turkey, coins found at excavations in Greece and Serbia, works of Azeri artists Marial Yusuf Kizi Rahiman Zade, Tagieva Taghi Aziz Zade, Michail Abulaev and many others.

Armenian art was represented by the paintings of Martiros Saryan, Hakob Kojoyan, graphical works of Grigor Khanjyan dedicated to Paryur Sevak's Unceasing Belfry poem and sculptures of Hakob Gyurgian.

CULTURE:

The Artist ELENA AKHVLEDIANI

Elena Akhvlediani, just as the other artists of her generation - David Kakabadze, Lado Gudiashvili and Keto Magalashvili - started her works in the early decades of the twentieth century. These masters' achievements, based on the legacy of national and European cultures, have largely determined the distinctive features of Georgian art and have not lost their importance to this day.
The interests of Akhvlediani were diverse and included painting, drawing, stage and costume design, and book illustration. But she has gone down in the history of Georgian art as, above all, a master of genre and lyrical landscape painting. Especially prominent in her artistic legacy are the views of Tbilisi, the city in which she had lived many years, which she loved as her own, and to the preservation of whose historical peculiarities she had given much of her energies.
The artist's studio, in one of the Tbilisi twisting streets, was indeed a cultural center. The place where artists, actors, musicians, poets and her numerous friends often gathered.
The character and inclinations of Akhvlediani had formed in her childhood and had little changed with the passing of time.

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