"stilis" da "arqiteqtorTa klubis" - Style Magazine

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stili #42. 2012
Otar Vepkhvadze's Exhibition in
Lado Gudiashvili Exhibition Hall
Lado Gudiashvili Exhibition Hall recently hosted Otar
Vepkhvadze's exhibition titled "The Road". According to the
comment given by Exhibition Hall coordinator Tamta
Shonvadze to Radio Fortuna, the exposition featured 47
ceramic objects, created by the artist during the recent years.
Otar Vepkhvadze was born on April 13 1953 in
Borjomi. He studied applied art at Tbilisi State Academy of
Arts. Otar Vepkhvadze's works were exhibited in Russia,
Germany, Italy, USA, Canada, Latvia, Hungary and Greece;
he is the art director of movies "Up the Spiral Staircase"
and "Mtis Novela".
While speaking about the origins of Otar Vepkhvadze's
art, you would first of all recall theatricality and musicality.
Even if the themes of his works seem to be very remote
from theatre, they still have that air about them. Metaphorical
quality of his ceramic art originates from this very source.
Otar Vepkhvadze has a very special language. He does
not resemble anyone. This is a very distinctive artist-sculptor.
He definitely has some connection with the traditional;
he does not follow the fashionable trend of installation-making.
Nonetheless, his art is vibrant with modern language,
which started to disseminate in art in the 20th century and
gains such an importance nowadays. In Otar Vepkhvadze's
works this is a combination of sculpture and painting, and
it yields very interesting results. This is what his stylistics
and modernity are about.
His art is not just an expression of his inner world, but
the struggle with general disappointment and chaos, capable
of expressing panhuman content.
Otar Vepkhvadze is one of creators of modern Georgian
avant-garde, which made our epoch so famous.
Otar Vepkhvadze is a romantic demiurge hero. He lives
as if writing a novel: with gusto, busily, dynamically, making
people guess what will follow; and he paints like a novel
is written: with generalizations, involving lots of personages,
always remembering to allow some suspense in plot development.
NINO LAGHIDZE