Zautashvili Gela Georgievich
Born in 1961 in Tbilisi. Graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1973.
Works in collections
Works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State Gallery of Georgia, and private collections in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, France, and Switzerland.
Exhibitions and auctions
1986 Generation of the 80s. Retrospective exhibition. House of Artists. Tbilisi, Georgia;
1987 Retrospective of contemporary Georgian art. Central House of Artists. Moscow;
1987 Family and Society in the USSR. USA;
1987 Georgian Non-Objective Art. Hermitage Garden. Moscow;
1987 First Group Exhibition of Georgian Abstractionists. State Art Gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia;
1988 Avant-garde - 88. Tbilisi City Museum. Georgia;
1988 Eidos: the Plastic and Social Idea. Petrovsky Lines. Moscow;
1989 Soviet Avant-garde of the 1920s-1980s. Palace of Arts. Minsk, Belarus;
1989 Eastern Wave "Red-White". Warsaw, Amsterdam.
1989 Soviet Russian Avant-garde 1970-1980. Vasarely Foundation. Aix-en-Provence, France;
1989 International Art Fair. Chicago, USA;
1989 Exhibition of Soviet Artists' Works. Bodenschatz Gallery. Basel, Switzerland;
1990 Art. Melbourne, Australia;
1991 ART MYTH 2. Moscow International Art Fair. Central Exhibition Hall "Manege". Moscow.
Author about himself
Nature, the universe in its infinity, man, and struggle – these are my themes. To find and define my own world of images in abstract painting, possessing a high level of plastic culture, is my goal. The idea of my abstract forms originates from phenomena of nature, and also contains the inherent 'informalism' interpretation of painting as an art of psychic improvisation. I experiment with various materials, combining figurative and abstract elements...
Critic
..."And although G. Zautashvili's painting is painting (let us not be confused by this tautology), I think that in exhibiting his works at the Museum of Musical Culture, there is, aside from mere chance, a deep rationale: his art continues the high tradition of interconnection between musical and plastic cultures in the twentieth century."
L. Bazhanov
..."In the most delicate structure of his painting, in the painting technique, in the asymmetrical balance of color forms, one can trace... a 'pure' painter who seeks to use painting to express the essence of things. In Gela's works there is always a certain connection with reality. The viewer unexpectedly discerns individual 'objects'—more precisely, hints of them: a bird, a tree, a cloud, silhouettes of ancient temples—and then everything dissolves again into infinity."
V. Khan-Magomedova
Bibliography
O. Sviblova, "Georgian Non-Objective Art", journal 'Iskusstvo', No. 10, 1988;
Brochure "Soviet Avant-garde of the 1920s-1980s", gallery 'Moscow Palette', Moscow, 1989;
Catalog "Eastern Wave. Red-White", Arsenal Foundation, gallery 'Moscow Palette', Warsaw, 1989;
Brochure "Soviet Russian Avant-garde 1970-1980", Aix-en-Provence, Vasarely Foundation, France, 1989;
Catalog "Gela Zautashvili. Painting, Collages 1988-1989", Moscow, 1990.
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