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Avtandil Gakhokidze’s Art
A fine work of art can engage the viewer’s heart and soul for a very long time. You can extend your imagination quite a long way into it and can feel its rhythms. You can also observe how this particular artwork reflects the culture of the society and the time in which it was made. You can also reflect on how and why it causes you to respond personally. What are its qualities that are mirrored in you? Georgian contemporary artist Avtandil Gakhokidze’s work exudes calmness. The people and animals in his paintings seem to have patiently existed way before the artist painted them, or, actually, painted over their living, although invisible to…
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Coronavirus, Tourism And Other Things Georgia Is Good At
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Tbilisi – The Way I See It
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.4″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_4_font=”|700|||||||” header_5_font=”|700|||||||” header_6_font=”|700|||||||” custom_margin=”||50px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ border_style_all=”dotted” border_color_bottom=”#f1f1f1″] By Filmmaker Giorgi Tavartkiladze Tbilisi – the city I was born and raised, is stuck in my earliest memory as a post-civil-war, ruined, poor and grey space. But in spite of this, I still fell in love with her. Today, some people in Georgia say “Tbilisi meant relationships”. But people who say this phrase, are the ones who have sentiments and nostalgia for the Soviet times. Unfortunately, that’s our reality; all the recent good memories about Tbilisi are from the Soviet era when people didn’t worry about heating, gas, electricity,…
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Aison Ower