Niko Pirosmani : wanderer between worlds / edited by Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Bice Curiger, Ciprian Adrian Barsan ; texts by Tadao Ando [and six others] ; and a conversation with Mariam Dvali.
Publisher:
Hatje Cantz,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
218 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimile, portraits ; 25 x 31 cm.
Catalog of an exhibition held at Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, October 26, 2018-January 27, 2019, and at Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France, March 2-October 30, 2019. Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215).
Contents:
A table as mediator / Bice Curiger and Elisabeth Dutz. Georgian magic: On Niko Pirosmani / Gottfried Boehm -- Niko Pirosmani: People, celebrations, animals / Friedrich Teja Bach -- Who is this Pirosmani? / Régis Gayraud -- Questions and answers about Niko Pirosmani / A conversation between Mariam Dvali and Bice Curiger -- Biography and reception history / Régis Gayraud -- The table of Niko Pirosmani / Ciprian Adrian Barsan -- Statement on the table of Niko Pirosmani / Tadao Ando -- The table and the utopia / Elisabeth Dutz -- A table as mediator / Bice Curiger and Elisabeth Dutz.
Summary:
A wider public discovery of the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918) is long overdue. Today, the autodidact is known not only as one of the most significant representatives of naïve art, but the story of his special reception is remarkable, as he painted his pictures for inns and pubs. Hardly known outside of Georgia these days, his work was nevertheless displayed alongside works by Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Marc Chagall in the legendary 1913 exhibition Mischén (Target) in Moscow, where he was known as the "Rousseau of the East." Pirosmani's unique visual vocabulary is based on consistently reduced formal elements: against an always black background, the elementary colors of red, blue, yellow, green, and white developed refined effects, immediately appealing to the viewer. Now, the Albertina in Vienna is devoting a first large retrospective to Pirosmani in the heart of Europe since a long time ago, examining his paintings in the context of art history. --Publisher.
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