=Vernissage Gallery requests the pleasure of your company at the exhibition

Vakhtang (Vati) Davitashvili

at the new gallery space to be held on May 12th 2023 at 7 pm.
Adrr.: 36. Shota Rustaveli. Ave.

From the 1960s, Georgian non-conformist art, as expected, mostly developed among amateur artists. Literature as well as fine arts remained discrete, ‘self-contained’, until the process broke through the boundaries to assert itself as an exciting, important event in Georgian culture.

Vati Davitashvili’s paintings, like nonconformist culture in general, was a window cut in the confined space of Sovietism to access the values of the free world. It was an alternative for those who did not seek a cliché, make-believe reality in art, but sought immediacy, experience and mastery...