Niko Pirosmani Exhibition in Fondation Beyeler

Fondation Beyeler I 17 SEPTEMBER 2023 – 28 JANUARY 2024

Niko Pirosmani
Giraffe
The Collection of Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts of Georgia, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi
© Infinitart Foundation

The Fondation Beyeler opens its new exhibition Niko Pirosmani on 17. September 2023. Already in his lifetime, the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918) paintings were held in high regard both in the population at large and among artists and writers. Today, Pirosmani is considered Georgia’s national artist. He is a legendary, mythical figure, one of the enigmatic loners of modern art. Like Vincent van Gogh, Henri Rousseau and Marc Chagall, he managed to create paintings revered by ordinary people and avant-garde artists alike.

Pirosmani’s paintings transform the everyday into the exceptional. Most of his painting are precise and energetic brushstrokes of vibrant colours on black oilcloth. Pirosmani mostly painted animals and common people figures such as a mother and her children, a fisherman, a cook or a postman.

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