1950 -1991

Painting, Graphics, Book illustration 

 

Irakli Parjiani was born in Mestia, Upper Svaneti, Georgia, in 1950. During 1969-1974 he was studying at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Artist was working in different mediums. Main thematic of Parjiani is religious painting, in which orthodox christian iconography is transformed by his individual expression. In 1992 Parjiani got Georgian State prize and in 1996 he was given Pirosmani award. His artworks are stored in different private collection in Georgia and abroad.

 Selected Exhibitions:

 

2012 - Personal exhibition, TBC Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2000 - Georgian painters group exhibition, Pirmasens, Germany 

2000 - Anniversary exhibition in 5 galleries same time: Photo-archive “Old Gallery”, illustrations  „N Gallery“; Abstraction „TMS Art Gallery“; „Berlin Cycle“ National Gallery; Graphic cycles gallery „Sharden“, Tbilisi, Georgia

1998 -Solo exhibition, National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

1998 - Solo exhibition, illustrations, „Old Gallery“, Tbilisi, Georgia

1998  - Solo exhibition, Gregory University, Rome, Italy

1996 - Solo exhibition, Sorbonne University Chapel, Paris, France

1995 - Solo exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

1995 - Solo exhibition „GoetheAnum“, Dornach, Switzerland

1990 - “From Pirosmani to Avant-Garde“, Gallery „Broc“, Barcelona, Spain

1987 - Group exhibition, Gallery „D’arte moderna Empedocle restivo“, Palermo, Italy

1987 - “Exhibition of Generations”, Artists House, Tbilisi, Georgia