Group Show Hopscotch to Hold in Georgian Museum of Fine Arts

The exhibition will open on December 20, 2019 and viewers will be able to see it through January 8, 2020. The exhibition includes 16 participant artists of different generations. Curator is Konstantine Bolkvadze.

Exhibition Hopscotch brings together a collection of the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts and contemporary artists’ works. Via this form, the museum continues the conceptual line, i.e. its collection is open in order to facilitate dialogue with contemporary art.

This exposition systemizes the history of Georgian visual arts in general. Distinguished views, political circumstances, values and aspirations for change represent the key idea of the exhibition. Experimental merging of colors, styles, and various artists clearly underlines identity of Georgian art. Works of various artists forming an entire visual dialogue are united under the same perceptions of form and color, icons, emotional tonality, intertextuality, and artistic temper. In the given decades (since the 1960s to date), artists turn around the common axis. Through this exhibition, viewers will find themselves in polygonal ambiance.

Time and rhythm of dynamics arrange irreversible styles into what seems to be a classified model at first glance; chaotic order is being shaped, an intrinsic feature of politically shaky countries.
The game Hopscotch is based on the principle of chance, in which you cannot calculate further steps in advance. In the given exhibition, the modus operandi of curatorial research and outlook is subjective. Visual structures like said game fall into the categories of losing and winning.

Generally, the Georgian art scene develops in a fragmentary way—contemporary art reflects less on cultural heritage; the museum’s collection and soviet period artworks, displayed next to contemporary artists, speak directly about the innovative idea. This kind of curatorial exhibition will continue as a series in our space.

Participant artists of the exhibition Hopscotch are: 

• Ketevan Maghalashvili - Sopo Chkhikvadze
• Natela Iankoshvili - Maia Baratashvili
• Levan Tsutskiridze - Davit Machavariani
• Alexandre Bandzeladze - Beso Uznadze
• Koki Makharadze - Giorgi Kochiashvili
• Otar Chkhartishvili - Tutu Kiladze
• Ana Shalikashvili - Anuk Beluga
• Levan Choghoshvili - Tamar Nadiradze