Levan Chogoshvili

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Description

Levan Chogoshvili
Untitled (From Destroyed Aristocracy Series)
signed with the artist's pseudonym and dated 86
oil and tempera on canvas
96 by 129cm.; 37 3/4 by 50 3/8 in.

Provenance

Collection of the Artist

Exhibited

Cagnes-sur-Mer, International Art Festival, 1990
Moscow, Central Artists House, Destroyed Aristocracy, 1993
Edinburgh, Gallery Zyw, Edinburgh International Festival, 1996
Somerset, Brimpton d'Aversy Castle, Levan Chogoshvili, 1996

Catalogue Note

“This painting depicts the family of Count of Skumnia in Kolkhis and the Iberian Kingdom (ancient kingdoms on current day Georgian territory). Painting-from-photo: The main conceptual and poetic strategy was to use old pre-revolution portrait photography of XIX and XX century aristocracy of Georgia, Russia and the whole of Caucasus, which was physically terminated during the 1920s and 1930s. I employ the language of Early Christian icon painting to assign them with a new content, to transform the old tradition into a new social concept." Levan Chogoshvili