Still Life – After Life by Mamuka Japaridze

Still Life – After Life, an exhibition of seasonal still lifes by Mamuka Japaridze is opening at the café of the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery. At different times of the year, the artist arranges fruits, berries, plants, and dishes from the matching season on the same wooden table and posts photos on social media. Still life elements change with the seasons. Still lifes, in the artist’s opinion, should be connected with nature and convey the distinct colors of the seasons. Through still life photographs and LIVE videos of sunrises, the artist observes the changes and cycles of nature and, using modern technology, captures the ephemerality of color and light on stable material. In a period of urbanization and global climate change, still lifes express the artist’s nostalgic attitude toward nature. 

Still-life photographs printed on fabric are exhibited in the cafe of the National Gallery and coincide with the first retrospective exhibition of the artist’s father, the sculptor Jemal Japharidze.