Yuri Berishvili – The Emperor’s Garden
5 October 18:00 - 3 November 18:00
From October 5 to November 3, the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery presents Yuri Berishvili retrospective exhibition
The Emperosr’s Garden.
Yuri Berishvili is one of the prominent playmakers in the recent history of Georgian visual arts, and his artistic messages offer rich material both down the path of Georgian painting’s development and for the capabilities of an image, for seeking its boundaries, and putting forth its new interpretations.
Quite evasive in his works is the line where figurative speech transforms into abstract, and vice versa. These very transitional nuances may reveal best the exceptionality of his vision as an artist, as he generalizes form or decides to schematize it in his own idiosyncratic way.
Yuri Berishvili was graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in 1981. And since then, the artist had numerous personal and group exhibitions in many countries of the world: Georgia, Belgium, Austria, France, Russia, England, Germany, the United States of America.
His works are preserved in the National Gallery of Georgia, the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, the World Bank Collection in Washington, the Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection in the Zimmerli Museum (USA), the Kolodzei Art Foundation in New Jersey (USA), private galleries and collections in Georgia and abroad.