EXHIBITION: “PHOTOGRAPHY IN GEORGIA” - the presentation of the book on June 6, 2013

On June 6, 2013, at 8 PM
Union PILOTS and the TBC Gallery will host
the presentation of the book

“PHOTOGRAPHY IN GEORGIA”

This publication is the first attempt of analyzing the development of Georgian Photography in the years 1955-2012. 

The book illustrates up to 2000 color and monochrome photo images from 201 photographers. These are the photo-documents that shaped the history of country’s most recent 60 years.

The book presentation will be accompanied by the photo-exhibition of unique Georgian State News Agency (Sakinformi) collections covering 

Soviet Georgia’s life from 1960s up until the “Perestroika’s” launch in 1985.

The “Sakinformi” photo-exhibition is held for the first time in Georgia.

The evening will be followed by Robi Kukhianidze’s ethnic rock

Please visit us at the following address:
7 Marjanishvili Str. TBC Bank
  

EXHIBITION: Georgian Photography | Face to Face (ithunter.org)

The exhibition will allow the Moscow public to face the contemporary Georgian photography and all the things that couldn’t leave Georgian photographers indifferent in various times and spaces… And these things are the life itself. Life, accompanied by pain and joy, meetings and partings, changes, loneliness and silence. And scream, which is inevitable sometimes. Thinking of the words of Joseph Brodsky — look around once again, whilst it does not become a photo…- one can say that the exhibition of Georgian photographers is a possibility to look at what has already become a photo."

These are the words Nestan Nizharadze, curator of Face to Face, uses to describe the first Georgian photography exhibition in Moscow. The display compiles works from six different artists with very different styles and visions, from social portrait to intimate nostalgia, including graphic conceptualization. It can be seen till 24th March in Pobeda Ga


PICS: (1) David Meskhi (2) Beso Uznadze via Pobeda Gallery


POBEDA Gallery is proud to present a new project — “Face to Face” — the first exhibition of Georgian photography ever to take place in Moscow. It includes works of 6 authors: Guia Chkhatarashvili, Beso Uznadze, David Meskhi, Guram Tsibakhashvili, Irina Abzhandadze and Yuri Mechitov.

Curator of the project Nestan Nizharadze was born and raised in Tbilisi. Educated as a journalist, Nestan curated numerous projects (such as Michael Kenna’s exhibitions in Tbilisi, georgian photography retrospective in Kiev, contemporary Georgian photography exhibition in France), founded Tbilisi Photography House. She is the editor-in-chief and the publisher of “PHOTO” magazine.

More than 60 works of the photographers of different generations and schools will recreate the many-sided face of the so-called “New Wave” in modern Georgian photography. Judging by the amount and artistic quality of the photographic output, one can say without exaggeration that the last 15 years are among the most significant and interesting periods in the history of georgian photography.

Black and white documentary series “Ushguli” (1990-2000), made by Guia Chkhatarashvili in the highlands of Svaneti, conceptual and nostalgic “Notes” (1997-2001) by Guram Tsibakhashvili, portraits of Sergei Parajanov, a famous movie director, by Yuri Mechitov(1978-1990), documentary and conceptual “Victim” series (2000) by Irina Abzhandadze, and two series “Don’t Wake Me”(2010) and “When Earth Seems to be Light” (2006-2009) by young authors Beso Uznadze and David Meskhi — all these works compose the “Face to Face” project.
“The exhibition will allow the Moscow public to face the contemporary Georgian photography and all the things that couldn’t leave Georgian photographers indifferent in various times and spaces... And these things are the life itself. Life, accompanied by pain and joy, meetings and partings, changes, loneliness and silence. And scream, which is inevitable sometimes. Thinking of the words of Joseph Brodsky — look around once again, whilst it does not become a photo… one can say that the exhibition of Georgian photographers is a possibility to look at what has already become a photo.”

(project curator — Nestan Nizharadze)