Biography
Born in 1961 in Tbilisi, GeorgiaGraduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in 1973
Collections
The State Tretyakov Gallery in MoscowNational Gallery of GeorgiaPrivate collections in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, France & Switzerland
Exhibitions
1986 Generation 80. Retrospective exhibition. Artists House. Tbilisi, Georgia.
1987 Retrospective of modern Georgian art. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1987 Family and Society in the USSR .&U.S.
1987 Georgian-figurative art. Hermitage Garden. Moscow
1987 1st group exhibition of abstract painting. State Art Gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia
1988 Vanguard – 88. Museum of Tbilisi. Georgia
1988 Eidos: the idea of plastic and social. Petrine line. Moscow
1989 The Soviet Avant-Garde 1920-1980. Arts Palace. Minsk. Belarus
1989 East Wave “Red and White”. Warsaw, Amsterdam.
1989 Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia
1970-1980. Foundation Vasarely. Aix-en-Provence.France
1989 International Art Fair. Chicago. U.S
1989 Exhibition of works of Soviet artists. Gallery Bodenshatts. Basle. Switzerland.
1990 Art. Melbourne. Australia
1991 ART MIF 2. Moscow International Art Fair. Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, Moscow
Bibliography
O. Sviblova – “Georgian Non-Figurative Art,” the magazine “Art”, N10,1988
Monograph – “The Soviet Avant-Garde 1920-1980”, Gallery Moscow Palette, Moscow, 1989
Catalogue – “Eastern Wave”
Catalogue – “Foundation”, Gallery Moscow Palette, Warsaw, 1989
“Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia 1970-1980”, Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provence France,1989
Catalogue – “Gela Zautashvili – Paintings & Collages 1988-1989,” Moscow, 1990
This is the first UK exhibition for Georgian artist Gela Zautashvili, whose work is alreadyfamiliar to audiences in Russia, Europe, the USA and Australia.In his paintings, Gela utilizes both traditional and contemporary techniques in themanipulation of homegrown and international cultural references, focusing on issues such aspolitical, cultural and intellectual influence, placed jarringly alongside erotic or otherdisparate geographic or natural elements.He plays with notions of portraiture and context in his depiction of writers, philosophers,dictators and artists, set against ambivalent landscapes or floating in surreal urban scenes,forcing the viewer to take time with each painting to make their own connections betweenthe various parts of the visual equation.
