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ferwera berlinis cikli

grafika odisea, sabavSvo biblia

PAINTINGS Berlin CycleGRAPHICS Odyssey, Children’s Bible

axali galereaTbilisi, 0108, besikis q.#26

New Gallery 26 Besiki st., Tbilisi, 0108, Georgia

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irakli farjiani daibada 1950 wlis 22 maiss zemo svaneTis daba mestiaSi.

1968 -1974 ww. swavlobda Tbilisis saxelmwifo samxatvro akademiaSi.

1978 wels muSaoba daiwyo saxarebis gadaweraze da ilustraciebze.

1989 -1990 ww. muSaobda berlinSi.

gardaicvala 1991 wlis 23 dekembers.

Irakli Parjiani was born on 22 May, 1950 in the township of Mestia of Zemo Svaneti region.

From 1968 to 1974 he studied in the Tbilisi State Academy of Art.

In 1978 the painter started copying and illustrating the Gospel.

In 1989 and 1990 he worked in Berlin.

Parjiani died on 23 December, 1991.

irakli farjiani. berlini. 1989Irakli Parjiani. Berlin. 1989

irakli farjiani. Tbilisi. 1986Irakli Parjiani. Tbilisi. 1986

irakli farjianis ferweruli namuSevrebis seria, saxelwodebiT „berlinis cikli“, 1989-1990 wlebSi Seiqmna, berlinSi, mxatvris gardacvalebamde erTi wliT adre. es cikli misi Semoqmedebis bolo etapia, finaluri nawili. es seria - religiuri kompoziciebis, landSaftebis da abstraqciebis saxiT - mis SemoqmedebaSi manamde arsebul da mimdinare yvela nakads aerTianebs. am dros ukve Seqmnilia portretebis da yvavilebis seria, saxarebis, goeTes „faustis“ homerosis „odiseas“, qarTuli da germanuli miTebis da zRaprebis, galaqtion tabiZis poeziis ilustraciebi, „xarebis“, „jvarcmis“, „adam da evas“ seriuli kompoziciebi, „navebis“ cikli, abstraqciebi.

Irakli Parjiani created a series of paintings called the Berlin Cycle in Berlin in the years of 1989-1990, a year before his death. The cycle is the final stage of his creative work. It includes religious compositions, landscapes and abstractions and features all the trends he had been following throughout his artistic career. By that time, the artist had already created a series of por-traits and flowers, illustrations to the Gospel, Goethe’s Faust, the Homeric Odyssey, Galaktion Tabidze’s poetry and Georgian and German myths and fairy tales. Among his previous works there also were series of compositions on the Annunciation, Crucifixion, Adam and Eve, abstractions and a “boat cycle”.

me CemTvis vxatav. gza adamianebisken Cemma naxatebma Tavad unda gaikvlion.

I paint for myself. My paintings are to pave their way to people themselves.irakli farjiani

Irakli Parjiani

irakli farjiani. Tbilisi. 1991 Irakli Parjiani. Tbilisi. 1991

foto: guram wibaxaSvili

Photo:Gura, Tsibakhashvili

rogorc mcenare ikrebs, sezonuri ciklis bolos, sasicocxlo energias da yvavilebiT irTveba, aseve gvirgvindeba „berlinis cikliT“ irakli farjianis Semoqmedeba. maStaburi proeqtia, ara mxo-lod suraTebis raodenobiT, formatiT, aramed TemiT, koncefciiT, SesrulebiT, emociis koncentra-ciiT... finaluri etapia - samyaros Sesaxeb mxatvris personaluri codnis, damokidebulebis, emociis gamovlenis. codnis da gamocdilebis gaziarebis sazeimo da daskvniTi manifestaciaa. amave dros, mxatvris am samyaroSi arsebobis bolo etapia, sxva samyaroSi misi SesaZlo gadanacvlebis TiTqosda gacnobierebuli molodinic igrZnoba. albaT amitomaa, rom yvelaferi, rac am suraTebSia gadmoce-muli, emociuri daZabulobis pikzea, arseboba-ararsebobis zRvarzea. suraTebis are sinaTlis „siv-rcea“, romelic ise moicavs sxeulebsa da sagnebs, rogorc wyali masSi areklil obieqtebs - wonas, materialurobas da konkretulobas ukargavs, erTdroulad obieqtis „saxes“ afiqsirebs da amave dros mis materialur realurobaSi eWvi Seaqvs. faqturuladac suraTis sibrtye wylis zeda-piris vibrirebis msgavsia. suraTebis sivrce sinaTlis „dinebaTaa“ konstruirebuli, masSi areklili aseve manaTobeli „obieqtebiT“ romelTa sxeulebrioba Zvirfasi kristalis STabeWdilebas iwvevs. anu sxva „materias“ xatavs, fizikuri „obieqtebis“ samyarodan „ideebis“ samyaroSi gadadis, romlis translirebas religiuri TemiT axorcielebs. TiTqos am manaTobeli, sazeimo sanaxaobiT sxva sam-yaros upiratesobas gvamcnobs.

As a plant gathers life energy and appears in full bloom at the end of its life, the Berlin Cycle is the crown of Parjiani’s works. It is a large-scale project not only in terms of the number of paintings and the size of the format, but also thanks to the themes, the manner of execution and the emotion they convey. They represent the final stage, the culmination of the artist’s awareness of the world, and of his manner to express his attitude and emotions. They are the solemn concluding manifestations of shar-ing knowledge and experience. Moreover, they reflect the final stage of the artist’s abiding in this world and even suggest his conscious anticipation of his possible transition to the other world. This is why the messages they convey are at the peak of emo-tional strain, at the boundary between existence and non-existence. The background to the painted images is the space of light that sets off the bodies and things as though they were reflected in water – their weight, the material nature and concreteness are all lost. The paintings feature the appearance of the images and at the same time question their materialness. The manner of execution too resembles the vibration of water surface. The space of the paintings is composed of streams of light, and of the likewise gleaming objects they reflect, whose physical essence weaves the impression of a precious crystal. The painter depicts a different "matter" and from the world of physical objects transcends to the world of concepts. In the paintings, the transcendence is rendered through religious themes. With the help of this radiating, festive scene, the artist seems to allude to the supremacy of the other world.

baia wiqoriZe

Baia Tsikoridze

xareba

Annunciation

,,Cemi miniaturebi didi ferweruli tiloebis eskizebad SeiZleba CaiTvalos. vocnebob, rom odesme es Canafiqri ganvaxorcielo“ - ambobda mxatvari da berlinSi, sadac mas am Canafiqris ganxorcielebis SesaZlebloba mieca, is dauyovnebliv iwyebs am ideis xorcSesxmas, did tiloebze gadaaqvs ,,adam da eva“ ,,xareba“ ,,jvarcma“.…,,rac Seexeba Temebis ganmeorebadobas, es meditaciasaviT aris CemTvis. mgonia rom amovwure, vTqvaT, ,,xarebis“ Tema, magaram rac ufro met variacias vxatav, miT meti axali idea Cndeba da es ukve dausrulebel, amouwurav Temad iqca Cems SemoqmedebaSi. erT Temaze amgvari koncentracia am Temis siRrmiseuli gaazrebisa da SemecnebisaTvis, bevrad ufro mniS-vnelovania CemTvis, vidre TemaTa swrafi monacvleoba da mravalferovneba’’.

irakli farjiani am suraTebisaTvis axal teqnikas da masalas iyenebs. akrilis saRebavs, romelic erTgvarad aerTianebs mxatvrisaTvis sayvareli ori masalis - pastelisa da zeTis saRe-bavebis niSan-Tvisebebs.

,,akrilis saRebavi erTi mxriv Txieri, meore mxriv ki Cem mier gamoyenebuli pastelis saRebavis grafikul xasiaTsac atarebs da saSualebas maZlevs es orive teqnika erT masalaSi vcado“.

“My miniatures can be considered as the sketches for larger paintings. My dream is to fulfill this idea”, the artist said in Berlin, where he had an opportunity to accomplish his dream. He started working immediately and transferred Adam and Eve, the Annunciation and the Crucifixion to a large canvas. “As concerns the recurrence of the themes, I treat them as meditation. When I think I am through with the theme of the Annunciation, but the more variations I paint the more new ideas crop up and it has become an endless, inexhaustible theme in my work. Concentration on one theme for its profound conceptualization and perception is by far more important to me than a rapid progression and variety.”

He employed new techniques and materials for these paintings – acrylic paints, which to some extent combined the properties of the painter’s two favorite materials – pastel and oil paints.

“On the one hand, acrylic is liquid, while on the other hand it conveys the same graphical effect as pastel paints that I use. Hence I can try both techniques in one material.”

irakli farjiani

Irakli Parjiani

irakli farjiani. Tbilisi 1988 Irakli Parjiani. Tbilisi. 1988

irakli farjianis SemoqmedebaSi ,,xareba“ ,,adam da evas“ motivTan aris dakavSirebuli. ber-linSi Seqmnili didi ferweruli tiloebi adasturebs, rom farjianma Tavisi Semoqmedebis sruliad axal simaRleze gadainacvla romlisken mimaval safexurebs ,,adam da eva“ da „xareba“ aSeneben.

pragmatul berlinSi faqizi suliereba gansacvifreblad TvalSisacemia, Tumca irakli far-jianis naxatebis winaSe yovelgvari skepsisi ukan ixevs, uZluria. farjianis erT-erTi ,,xarebis“ kom-poziciebis xelwera, romelic naivur figuratiulobasa da feradovan abstraqcias Soris meryeobs, savsebiT gajerebuli da gansazRvrulia xelovanis emociuri impulsiT. ferTa nazi SeTanxmebiT Seqmnil saocar sivrceSi angelozis Tavi, maxarobeli xelebi da xarebis mimRebi mariamis sxeulia gamosaxuli, yvavilTan erTad. Tumca yvelaze WeSmarit ,,movlenad“ ,,aq angelozis suliereba gvev-lineba, romlis samosi da frTebi sinaTliT gamsWvalulia da Signidan asxivebs. farjianis TeTri tonaloba cnobil frazas maxsenebs, es aris „diadi dumili“ Tumca iseve aRvsili SesaZleblobiT, rogorc arara dabadebis win“. v.kandinskis davesesxebi ,, wminda JReradoba wina planze gamodis. suli usagno vibrirebas iwyebs, rac ufro rTulia da „zegrZnobadi...“

irakli farjianis „xarebis“ kompoziciebSi mariami axal evad warmogvidgeba. ,,ezoTeruli in-terpretaciebis mixedviT, mariami da ieso Tavdapirveli RvTaebrivi arsebebis - adam da evas reinkar-naciad ganixileba“ miTxra mxatvarma da fra anjelikos ,,xarebaze“ mimiTiTa, sadac xarebis ukana fons adam da evas samoTxidan gaZevebis scena qmnis. ,, ...etyoba, florencieli ostati am TemasTan da-kavSirebul saidumlo codnas flobda“. ai, ase JRers misi xareba, romelic aRmosavleTis mistiuri siRrmeebidan iRebs dasabams“.

irakli farjiani abstraqciis axalaRmomCenicaa, mas gahyavs abstraqciis axali gza, raTa ufro srulyos da bolomde Seimecnos Tavisi xelovnebis sulieri sawyisi - imaterialuri drama, romelsac mxatvarma Tavadve mouZebna formula: ,,yovelgvari materia - Sededebuli sinaTlea“.

mixeil hedteri

xareba

Annunciation

In Parjiani’s works, the “Annunciation” is associated with the motifs of Adam and Eve. The large canvases created in Berlin attest that Parjiani moved to an altogether new stage and the Annunciation and Adam and Eve are the steps leading to these new heights.

Subtle spirituality is surprisingly conspicuous in pragmatic Berlin. However, any scepsis is rendered helpless against Parjiani’s paintings. One of the artist’s Annunciation compositions, fluctuating between naïve sketchy style and colorful abstraction, is completely inundated and determined by the artist’s emotive impulses. Within the miraculous space created by a tender combi-nation of colors, appear the head of the Angel, the Annunciating Hands and the figure of Mary, receiving the Annunciation, who is depicted with a flower. However, the most genuine ‘happening’ seems to be the spiritual representation of the Angel, whose garments and wings, inundated with light, irradiate from within. Parjiani’s white tones remind me of a well-known phrase – it is “great silence”, though as full of prospects as a nonbeing before birth.” I will quote Wassily Kandinsky: “A pure sound comes to the foreground; the soul is set into incorporeal vibration, which is more complex and “supra-perceptional”.

In Irakli Parjiani’s Annunciation composition, Mary appears as a new Eve. “In esoteric interpretations, Mary and Jesus are seen as the reincarnation of the original divine creatures – Adam and Eve”, the artist told me and pointed to Fra Angelico’s Annun-ciation, where the Annunciation is set against the scene of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden. “The Florentine painter must have possessed the sacral knowledge associated with the theme.” This is how his Annunciation sounds, emerging from the mystical depths of the East.

Irakli Parjiani discovered new horizons of abstraction. He paved a new path of abstraction to bring to perfection and compre-hend the spiritual beginnings of his art – the non-material drama, for which the artist had found a formula from the very start: “Any kind of matter is condensed light.”

Mikhail Hedter

EXHIBITIONS

1986 - Retrospective Exhibition of Georgian Art, Central House of Painters, Moscow;

1987 - “Exhibition of the Generations”, Painters’ House, Tbilisi; - Group exhibition, Gallery “Empedocle Resstivo”, Palermo, Italy;1990 - “From Pirosmani to the Avant-garde”, Gallery “Broc”, Barcelona; - “Three Painters Exhibition” Berlin, Germany;

1994 - Solo exhibition, Gallery “Vacha”, Tbilisi;1995 - Solo exhibition, Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland; - Solo exhibition, Modern Art Gallery, Tbilisi; - Solo exhibition, TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi; - Group exhibition, Gallery “Orient”, Tbilisi;

1996 - Solo exhibition, Gallery “Vacha”, Tbilisi; - Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France; - Solo exhibition, TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi;1997 - Solo exhibition, from private collections, “Old Gallery”, Tbilisi; - Solo exhibition, Still-Life, “Old Gallery”, Tbilisi;

1998 - Solo exhibition, Gregory University, Rome, Italy; - Solo exhibition, National Gallery, Tbilisi; - Solo exhibition, from private collections, “Old Gallery”, Tbilisi; - Solo exhibition, Illustrations, “Old Gallery”, Tbilisi; - Group exhibition, Modern Art Gallery, Tbilisi;2000 - Group exhibition, Modern Art Gallery, Tbilisi;2000 - Jubilee exhibitions, simultaneously in 5 galleries: Solo exhibition, Photo archives, “Old Gallery”, Tbilisi; Solo exhibition, Illustrations, “N”, Gallery, Tbilisi; Solo exhibition, Abstraction, TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi; Solo exhibition, Berlin Cycle, National Gallery, Tbilisi; Solo exhibition, Graphic Cycle, Gallery “Chardin”, Tbilisi;

2000 - Exhibition of Georgian Artists in Pirmassen, Germany;

2002 - Unknown Pictures, “Hobby” Gallery, Tbilisi;

2006 - Solo exhibition, TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi;

2009 - Solo exhibition and presentation of a catalogue, Hobby Gallery, Tbilisi;

2010 - Solo exhibition, "Sketch, Illustration, Baia Gallery, Tbilisi;

2011 - Solo exhibition, the Annunciation, Tsinandali, Georgia;2011 - Solo exhibition, “Berlin Cycle”, “Odyssey”, “Children’s Bible”, New Gallery, Tbilisi.

AWARDS

1992 - State Award of the Republic of Georgia;

1996 - Niko Pirosmani’s Prize.

Irakli Parjiani’s works are to be found in private galleries and collections in Georgia, Russia, America and Europe.

gamofenebi

1986 qarTuli xelovnebis retrospeqtuli gamofena, centraluri mxatvris saxli, moskovi; 1987 “TaobaTa gamofena”, mxatvris saxli, Tbilisi; “jgufuri gamofena” galerea “Empedocle Resstivo”, palermo, italia;1990 “firosmanidan avangardamde”, galerea “Broc”, barselona, espaneTi; sami mxatvris gamofena, berlini, germania;

1994 personaluri gamofena, galerea “vaCa”, Tbilisi;1995 personaluri gamofena, goeTeanumi, dornaxi, Sveicaria; personaluri gamofena, Tanamedrove xelovnebis galerea, Tbilisi; personaluri gamofena, TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi; jgufuri gamofena, galerea “orienti”, Tbilisi;

1996 personaluri gamofena, galerea “vaCa”, Tbilisi; personaluri gamofena, sorbonis universitetis taZari, parizi, safrangeTi; personaluri gamofena, TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi;1997 personaluri gamofena kerZo koleqciebidan, “Zveli galerea”, Tbilisi; personaluri gamofena, “naturmorti”, “Zveli galerea”, Tbilisi;

1998 personaluri gamofena, gregoris universiteti, romi, italia; personaluri gamofena, erovnuli galerea, Tbilisi; personaluri gamofena, kerZo koleqciebidan, “Zveli galerea”, Tbilisi; personaluri gamofena, ilustracia, “Zveli galerea”, Tbilisi; jgufuri gamofena, Tanamedrove xelovnebis galerea, Tbilisi;

2000 jgufuri gamofena, Tanamedrove xelovnebis galerea, Tbilisi;2000 saiubileo gamofenebis cikli: “fotoarqivi”, “Zveli galerea”, Tbilisi; “ilustraciebi”, “N” galerea, Tbilisi; “abstraqcia”, “TMS Art Gallery", Tbilisi; “berlinis cikli”, erovnuli galerea, Tbilisi; grafikuli cikli, galerea “Sardeni”, Tbilisi;

2000 qarTvel mxatvarTa gamofena pirmasenSi, germania;2002 ucnobi namuSevrebi, galerea “hobi”, Tbilisi;2006 personaluri gamofena, TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi;2009 personaluri gamofena da katalogis prezentacia, galerea “hobi”, Tbilisi;2010 personaluri gamofena - eskizi, ilustracia, baia galerea, Tbilisi;2011 personaluri gamofena – “xareba”, winandali, saqarTvelo;2011 personaluri gamofena – “berlinis cikli”, “odisevsis mogzauroba”, “sabavSvo biblia”, axali galerea, Tbilisi

premiebi

1992 saqarTvelos respublikis saxelmwifo premia;

1996 niko firosmanis saxelobis premia.

irakli farjianis namuSevrebi daculia kerZo galereebsa da koleqciebSi saqarTveloSi, ruseTSi, amerikasa da evropaSi.

abstraqcia. tilo, Sereuli teqnikaABSTRACTION. Mixed media on canvas

95 X 118 cm. 1991

xareba. tilo, akriliANNUNCIATION. Acrylic on canvas

124 X 124 cm. 1989

aRdgoma. tilo, Sereuli teqnikaTHE RESURRECTION. Mixed media on canvas

166 X 226 cm. 1989

metafizikuri landSafti. tilo, zeTiMETAPHYSICAL LANDSCAPE. Oil on canvas

156 X 230 cm. 1989

xareba. tilo, zeTiANNUNCIATION. Oil on canvas

41 X 56 cm. 1987

jvarcma. tilo, zeTiCRUCIFIXION. Oil on canvas

95 X 116 cm. 1989

abstraqcia. tilo, zeTiABSTRACTION. Oil on canvas

125 X 125 cm. 1991

metafizikuri landSafti. tilo, Sereuli teqnika METAPHYSICAL LANDSCAPE. Mixed media on canvas

128 X 226 cm. 1989

abstraqcia. tilo, akriliABSTRACTION. Acrylic on canvas

95 X 120 cm. 1991


116 X 116 cm. 1989


127 X 182 cm. 1989

xareba. tilo, zeTiANNUNCIATION. Oil on canvas

170 X 230 cm. 1989

Soba. tilo, zeTiTHE NATIVITY OF CHRIST. Oil on canvas

100 X 132 cm. 1990


82.5 X 110 cm. 1991


105 X 130 cm. 1991

saidumlo seroba. tilo, Sereuli teqnikaTHE LAST SUPPER. Mixed media on canvas

170 X 230 cm. 1989


130 X 128 cm. 1989


290 X 290 cm. 1989

abstraqcia. tilo, Sereuli teqnikaABSTRACTION. Mixed media on canvas

103 X 118 cm. 1991


127 X 125 cm. 1989


114 X 186 cm. 1989

abstraqcia. tilo, Sereuli teqnika ABSTRACTION. Mixed media on canvas

66 X 100 cm. 1991


130 X 130 cm. 1990


151 X 226 cm. 1989

adami da eva. tilo, zeTiADAM AND EVE. Oil on canvas

92 X 73 cm. 1989

adami da eva. tilo, zeTiADAM AND EVE. Oil on canvas

92 X 65 cm. 1989


122 X 250 cm. 1991


130 X 130 cm. 1989

jvarcma. tilo, akriliCRUCIFIXION. Acrylic on canvas

125 X 125 cm. 1989

jvarcma. qaRaldi, Sereuli teqnikaCRUCIFIXION. Mixed media on paper

207 X 123 cm. 1985

abstraqcia, tilo, zeTiABSTRACTION, Oil on canvas

82.5 X 110 cm. 1991

naturmorti. tilo, zeTiSTILL- LIFE. Oil on canvas

51 X 81 cm. 1991


82 X 108 cm. 1991


82 X 52 cm. 1991


220 X 200 cm. 1991

ciklidan ,,Sexvedrebi’’. tilo, zeTiFROM THE CYCLE ”THE MEETINGS”. Oil on canvas

79 X137 cm. 1977

odisea. qaRaldi, pasteliODYSSEY. Pastel on paper

37 X 31 cm. 1981


34 X 26 cm. 1981


32 X 42 cm. 1981


28 X 32 cm. 1981


22 X 31 cm. 1981


31 X 35 cm. 1981


27 X 37 cm. 1981


23 X 30 cm. 1981


24 X 32 cm. 1981


24 X 34 cm. 1981

ilustracia sabavSvo bibliisTvis. qaRaldi, tuSiILLUSTRATION FOR CHILDREN’S BIBLE. Ink on paper

26 X 21,5 cm. 1991

katalogze muSaobdnen:

dizaini: sofo farjiani

redaqtori: baia wiqoriZe

sainformacio uzrunvelyofa: sofio merabiSvili, sofo vasaZe

foto: gia CxataraSvili

Targmani: elene tatiSvili

On the catalogue worked:Design: Sopho ParjianiEditor: Baia TsikoridzeInformational service: Sophio Merabishvili, Sopho VasadzePhotos: Gia ChkhatarashviliTranslation: Elene Tatishvili

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