Georgian Museum of Fine Arts Presents Exhibition ‘Hopscotch’

The Georgian Museum of Fine Arts presents the group show: Hopscotch.  The exhibition opened on December 20 and is open until January. The exhibition includes 16 participant artists of different generations, curated by Konstantine Bolkvadze.

Hopscotch brings together a collection of the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts and contemporary artists’ works. In this way, the museum continues the conceptual line of an open collection so as to facilitate dialogue with contemporary art. 

This exposition systematizes the history of Georgian visual arts in general: distinguished views, political circumstances, values and aspirations for change represent the key idea of the exhibition. The experimental merging of colors, styles, and various artists clearly underlines the identity of Georgian art. Works of various artists, forming an entire visual dialogue, are united under the same perceptions of form and color, icons, emotional tonality, intertextualities, and artistic temper. From the 1960s to date, artists have turned around a common axis, and through this exhibition viewers will find themselves in polygonal ambience.

The dynamics of time and rhythm arrange irreversible styles into what seems to be a classified model at first glance; chaotic order is shaped, an intrinsic feature of politically shaky countries.  

The game Hopscotch is based on the principle of chance, in which you cannot calculate further steps in advance. In the given exhibition, the modus operandi of curatorial research and outlook is subjective. Visual structures, like the game, fall into the categories of losing and winning.

Generally, the Georgian art scene develops in a fragmentary way: contemporary art reflects less on cultural heritage. The museum’s collection and soviet period artworks, displayed next to contemporary artists, speak directly about the innovative idea. This kind of curatorial exhibition will continue as a series.    

Participant artists of the exhibition Hopscotch:

• Ketevan Maghalashvili – Sopo Chkhikvadze
• Natela Iankoshvili – Maia Baratashvili
• Levan Tsutskiridze – Davit Machavariani
• Alexandre Bandzeladze – Beso Uznadze
• Koki Makharadze – Giorgi Kochiashvili
• Otar Chkhartishvili – Tutu Kiladze
• Ana Shalikashvili – Anuk Beluga
• Levan Choghoshvili – Tamar Nadiradze.