Georgia: Yuri Berishvili’s exhibition “Emperor’s Garden” was opened at Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery on October 5, 2024, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Georgia.
Along with the exhibition’s opening, a book album depicting the artist’s work was presented, and it was also issued with the exhibition’s signage.
Yuri Berishvili is one of the prominent playmakers in the recent history of Georgian visual arts, and his artistic messages are rich material for the development of Georgian Painting and, in general, for the possibilities of image, the search for its boundaries, and new interpretations.
Yuri Berishvili always says, “Painting is a journey with bare feet through senseless landscapes and timelessness, Timelessness is an abstraction.”
Yuri Berishvili graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in 1981. Since then, the artist has had numerous personal and group exhibitions in many countries of the world: Georgia, Belgium, Austria, France, Russia, England, Germany, and the United States of America.
His emotional expression and depiction of a metaphysically sensed world make his abstract artworks always distinguish. The artist paints with vivid, “pure“ colours. His compositions are created by thousands of combinations of flat surfaces and spontaneously scattered spots.
The artist’s works are preserved in the National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, Washington, World Bank Collection, Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection at Zimmerli Museum (USA), Kolodzei Art Foundation, New Jersey (USA), and private galleries and collections in Georgia and abroad.
The exhibition will continue at the National Gallery until November 3, 2024.
National Gallery of Georgia
The Tbilisi Art Gallery, or the National Gallery, is an art gallery located on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi. Historically, it was known to Tbilisians as the Blue Gallery, taking its name from the various shades of blue-green paint previously adorning the facade, although the building is now painted grey.
