Georgian Immigrant Culture is both related to Georgia and exists independently within the international culture field. It is always fascinating to meet the representatives of this culture.
The Baia Gallery (68 Razmadze Street), is hosting an exhibition until November 16 featuring two Georgian artists who live and work in France, Daredjane and Henri Matchavariani. Daredjane displays her sculptures while Henri shows his graphic works.
Henri Matchavariani, master of his line and gesture carving the surrounding void while being aware of the qualities the mediums used, has been exploring the essences for a long time.
Henri Matchavariani, a poster designer who is well-known in France, has found his own way to a perfect line, under the guidance of “mad draftman”, Hokusai.
His entire body and hand, familiar with fencing disciplines, he shapes out the space. His line is equally obvious in its blending of flesh and fabric. Henri Matchavariani, under Dotremont’s tutelage exudes words that find their way easily onto paper in the form of logograms. His signs come alive, entering into a dialogue with the surrounding void and throbbing with a energy confining otherness.
Daredjane, a French sculptor with Georgian roots, is a sculptor. She was born and raised in Belgium, but now lives in France where she studied law. She began sculpting in the early 1990s, and it became her passion and profession.
She exhibits regularly both in France and abroad, in solo or fair exhibitions, in Paris, New York and Miami, Brussels, Vienna and Toronto.
In 2019, she created a monument called “Merani”, which is the First Republic Garden in Tbilisi, dedicated to those who fought for Georgia’s independence through political emigration. One of her sculptures “Shota” is still in the Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi. Many of her works are in private collections around the world.
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