Maka Batiashvili's introductory show
PAINTING
February 9 - 11, 2007
opening reception and welcome of the artist: Thursday, Februar 8 at 7pm
DATES
H O M E L A N D G E O R G I A
documentaries from Georgia
Friday, March 9, 2007 . 9pm
afterwards artist talk with Maka Batiashvili
programme:
Maka Batiashvili: force and weak (15 min, 2006)
Tamuna Karumidze: Zahesi 708 (48 min, 2001)
Maka Batiashvili's final show
PAINTING
new works
March 23 - April 11, 2007
opening: Thursday, March 22 at 8pm
finissage and farewell party: Wednesday, April 11, starting at 8pm
During the opening hours of the show a small café bar serves some coffee, cake and soft drinks. Special thanks for furnishing the café are going to "haben will", flea market store, A.-Hoffmann-Str. 45, Leipzig/Germany.
January - April 2007:
Maka Batiashvili, Georgia
"Art is not only a means of pleasure, but also expression and establishment of freedom, the relation of the internal world to the surrounding environment (…), the conflict of idealism and realism, the relation between the existence and non-existence. The mentality of the artist is always related to the events around him, because these events create the art."
Maka Batiashvili lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she was born in 1975. After her studies of monumental painting she devoted herself to smaller formats and video works that were shown in diverse exhibitions in Georgia. Her works are journeys into silent strange worlds - thanks to concentrated observations from an unusual perspective, and thanks to their references to Georgian reality.
Apart from her artistic work Maka Batiashvili is member of the Georgian Artist Group and curates and organises political actions.
selected works
![videostill from "arrival and departure",<br />15 min, color, 2006](uploads/tx_templavoila/work_37.jpg "videostill from "arrival and departure",<br />15 min, color, 2006")
videostill from "arrival and departure",
15 min, color, 2006
untitled, photography, 2006
untitled, oil on canvas, 46 x 68 cm, 2006
untitled, oil on canvas, 85 x 71 cm, 2006
Further images can be found through the following database: www.art.ge