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From 18 May to 16 June 2025, the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery of Georgia presents Alexander Shervashidze: Retrospective<\/strong><\/em>, an exhibition dedicated to Alexander Shervashidze (1867\u20131968)\u2014painter, scenographer, art critic, and a prominent descendant of the Abkhazian princely family Shervashidze.<\/p>\n Born in Feodosia, Shervashidze belonged to the Georgian-Abkhazian aristocracy. His multifaceted creative career took shape in the cultural centres of Russia and Europe. Educated in Moscow and Paris, he developed a distinctive artistic language and made a lasting contribution to the evolution of European theatrical and visual arts. Curated by Nana Shervashidze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From 18 May to 16 June 2025, the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery of Georgia presents Alexander Shervashidze: Retrospective, an exhibition dedicated to Alexander Shervashidze (1867\u20131968)\u2014painter, scenographer, art critic, and a prominent descendant of the Abkhazian princely family Shervashidze. Born in Feodosia, Shervashidze belonged to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20],"class_list":["post-26613","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-exhibitions","cat_exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/26613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/26613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26620,"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/26613\/revisions\/26620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26613"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=26613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe exhibition traces Shervashidze\u2019s rich and varied career, highlighting his role as Honorary Chairman of the Mir Iskustva<\/em> (World of Art) Artists\u2019 Union and his membership in the Parisian Montparnasse art circle. By 1909, he had joined the National Society of French Artists and gained international recognition through his participation in major exhibitions. His creative vision uniquely blended Georgian, Russian, and European artistic traditions.
\nA central focus of the exhibition is Shervashidze\u2019s work in scenography and costume design, including his collaborations with renowned director Vsevolod Meyerhold at the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg and later with Sergei Diaghilev\u2019s legendary Ballets Russes. His scenographic works\u2014such as The Tantric Clown, Prometheus, and Shota Rustaveli\u2014played a formative role in shaping the visual language of early modernist theater and ballet.
\nOn view are Shervashidze\u2019s scenographic and costume sketches, paintings, illustrations, documents from his personal archive, photographs, and posters\u2014offering a rich overview of his artistic achievements in London, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, and Monte Carlo.
\nIn 1958, Shervashidze donated a significant part of his oeuvre to the Art Museum of Georgia and the Sokhumi Picture Gallery\u2014an act of deep affection and symbolic return to his homeland. As Serge Lifar once noted, Alexander Shervashidze embodied the artistic ideals of the theater and Diaghilev\u2019s Ballets Russes and stood as a vital figure in the theatrical and artistic revolutions of the West.
\nThe exhibition is organized by the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery of Georgia. The show features 250 selected exhibits from the collection of the Shalva Amiranashvili State Museum of Art of Georgia.
\nThe project was implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.<\/p>\n