Showing posts with label Picasso. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picasso. Show all posts

Thursday, June 04, 2009

AUSSTELLUNG: Picasso ist für Georgien eine gelungener Auftakt nach dem Krieg (eurasianet.org)

Vierzig Zeichnungen, Skizzen und Linolschnitte Picassos aus einem französichen Museum sind diesen Sommer in Georgien zu sehen. Für die Georgier ist es die erste hochkarätige Ausstellung nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion. Dieses Ereignis soll das kaukasiche Land einen kulturellen Aufwind verschaffen und kulturell in die Weltgemeinschaft zurückführen.

Die internationalen Ambitionen sollen damit herausgestrichen werden. Man will sich von dem Image des Krieges im letzten Sommer verabschieden. "Es ist die erste seriöse Ausstellung," kommentierete der Kulturminister Nikoloz Rurua die Eröffnung der Picasso-Ausstellung am 30 Mai 2009. "Lange haben wir darauf gewartet und ich denke, dass diese Ausstellung ein Vorreiter dafür sein wird, was noch kommen wird." Schon zu Sowjetzeiten hatte Georgien den Ruf, kreative Talente zu beheimaten, von Künstlern und Bildhauern bis hin zu Schriftstellern und Filmemachern.

Nicht nur in Tbilisi sollen die Werke, die auf 200.000 EUR geschätzt werden, gezeigt werden. Die Ausstellung wird auch in Signaghi im Osten Georgiens und in der Hafenstadt Batumi zu sehen sein.

Frankreich thematisierte immer wieder die Sicherheit dieser Werke. Die Ausstellung war schon vor den politischen Unruhen ausgehandelt. Sie Sammlung selbst erreichte Tbilisi am 26. Mai, also an dem Tag, als 50.000 Demonstranten in der Innenstadt den Rücktritt Saakashvilis verlangten, während der Direktor des Georgischen Nationalmuseums in Tbilisi Davit Lortkipanidze, die Sammlung begutachtete.

Für den Kulturminister Rurua hat diese Ausstellung vor allem die Bedeutung, dass Georgien ein normales europäisches Land ist. "Die Wirkung dieser Ausstellung wird heraussagend sein." sagte Lortkipidze

Geplant wurde die Ausstellung als ein Teil des französisch-georgischen Kunstaustausches, der 2007, also vor dem Krieg beschlossen wurde. Im Zervos Museum, wo die Picasso-Bilder herkommen, werden derzeit Bilder aus dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert des Malers Niko Pirosmani aus dem georgischen Nationalmuseum gezeigt.

Die Ausstellung kann in Signaghi’s neu rekonstruiertem Kunst Museum bis zum 23. Juni besucht werden. Danach ist Picasso im Georgischen Nationalmuseum in Tbilisi vom 28. Juni bis zum 2. August zu sehen. Abschließen kann Picasso Werk in Batumis Kunstmuseum von Adscharien bis zum 6. September besichtigt werden.

Text nach Molly Corso

Originaltext mit Bildergallerie hier >>>

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

EXHIBITION: Picasso Comes to Georgia. By Rusudan Gvazava (geotimes.ge)

“Picasso” in Georgia, an exhibition of the works of Pablo Picasso, the great Spanish painter of the 20th century, opened in the city of Sighnaghi in the Kakheti region on May 30. The exhibition is organised by the Georgian National Museum and General Council of the Department of Yonne in France.

The Picasso works will be exhibited for 3 months in Sighnaghi, Tbilisi and Batumi. They will be in Sighnaghi from 30 May to 23 June, at the Art Museum in Tbilisi from 28 June to 2 August and in the Adjaran Art Museum in Batumi from 8 August to 6 September.

A complementary exhibition of Niko Pirosmani’s paintings was held at the Zervo Museum in the city of Vézelay in France in February, 2008. It was the Pirosmani exhibition which brought Picasso to Georgia.

General Director of the National Museum of Georgia Davit Lortkipanidze explained that it would be impossible to hold this exhibition in Georgia if the country did not have spaces such as the Sighnaghi Museum and if the French museum had not exhibited Pirosmani’s paintings, Georgian gold artefacts and other Georgian cultural treasures. Lortkipanidze added that he and the President of the General Council of the Yonne Department had signed a cooperation agreement which provided for the exchange of Picasso and Pirosmani exhibitions in February, 2008.

He further explained that being asked to host this scale of project means that Georgia has already gained international trust and this creates the conditions for Georgia to be part of the international cultural exchange system. “What is most important is that we are not only exporting but also importing, and we also include in the exhibition an educational programme for all visitors, especially children,” he commented.

Lortkipanidze said that the National Museum of Georgia is the home of both universal art and education. He added that the project will make a strong contribution to public education and also the country’s economy. The Ministry of Culture, Monuments Protection and Sport, Tbilisi City Hall, the Kakheti regional administration, Bank Republic and the Adjaran Culture and Education Ministry are actively involvedas partners in the project.

34 linogravures are on display, most of them made in 1962, “But we also have 3 in other media and some graphics from the thirties of the last century,” explained Daniel Perroy, Director of the Cultural Department of the Yonne Department General Council. He added that the items brought to Georgia were collected by him; “I have brought the ones I liked most and which I consider the most valuable,” he commented. He said that Pirosmani’s exhibition had had great resonance in France.

Picasso and Pirosmani never met each other, but Picasso knew Pirosmani’s art very well. “In 1969, when Pirosmani was exhibited for the first time at the Louvre in Paris, Picasso saw his paintings,” explained Irina Arsenishvili, arts specialist and Head Curator of the National Museum of Georgia. She added that Illia Zdanevich, who was also from Georgia, a famous avant-garde artist and a friend of Picasso, produced a book about Pirosmani with a calf cover. “Zdanevich asked Picasso to do a portrait of Pirosmani for the book,” she said. He did so, and the Tbilisi museum has the original.

The exhibition was attended by a huge number of people, including Sighnaghi residents, invited guests, media representatives, Government representatives and tourists. Most of them were very glad to see original Picassos and commented that they would never have believed that such an exhibition would be held in Georgia.

2009 has been declared the Year of Picasso and his works will be exhibited at museums all over the world.