Zhani (Zhango) Medzmariashvili is a representative of a generation called “50s Generation”. The generation, which went through a difficult childhood due to political repressions and the Second World War, developed the most important cultural processes in the country at the end of the 50s – a new worldview and a new artistic approach.

In the early 1960s, the artist created his landmark artwork “Billposter”. The artwork has become one of the icon of Georgian painting of the sixties – Medzmariashvili as a free-thinking artist with the monumental style and contrasting pictorial speech.

Zhani Medzmariashvili was born in Kutaisi. He studied at the art school named after Yakob Nikoladze (1941-1944). His teacher was Valentin Sherpilov. Zhani Medzmariashvili studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1944-1952.
Zhani Medzmariashvili’s work includes several genres: portraits, landscapes and still lifes.