Niko Pirosmani: Black Light

Georgian painter Pirosmani (1862-1918) the forgotten hero of the avant-garde--on display again: a large retrospective at the Albertina in Vienna examines his paintings in the context of art history.tory.

Summary

Black light: a concise introduction to the beloved modernist and fabled painter
Georgia’s most famous artist, Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918) is a fabled figure in the story of early modernism. The painter, self-taught and penniless during his lifetime, was heralded posthumously for his "naive" style. Pirosmani’s paintings are simple—blunt, colorful depictions of rustic scenes gleaming against black canvas backgrounds, extraordinary icons of glowing intensity.
This exhibition catalog showcases around 50 rarely seen Pirosmani masterpieces alongside a historical text on the artist written in 1926 by Kirill Zdanevich (who "discovered" Pirosmani); a fictional (but historically accurate) essay discussing Tbilisi as the Paris of Pirosmani’s age by the Danish art historian and writer, Kaspar Thormod; an interview with the Georgian art historian Nana Kipiani and her artist husband Levan Chogoshvili by Swiss curator Daniel Baumann; and reflections on the artist by contemporary artists Thea Djordjadze, Mamma Andersson and Tal R.

Product details

• Authors: Niko Pirosmani
• Assisted by: Malou Wedel Bruun (Editor), Poul Erik Tøjner (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2023
• EAN: 9788793659667
• ISBN: 978-87-93659-66-7
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 270 mm x 215 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 498 g
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Painting, drawing, colour; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / Techniques / Painting, Paintings & painting in oils, Photography: portraits & self-portraiture