Temo Javakhi
Temur Javakhishvili (), known professionally as Temo Javakhi (), is a Georgian contemporary artist born in 1951. He graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1976. Javakhi works in various mediums - video art, installation, painting, action/performance art). Javakhi shows his individual approach of conceptual analysis by playing with Dadaist forms, using postmodernist irony and expression. Career From 1985 he has been a member of the Artists Union in Georgia. Since 2015 Temo Javakhi has been working as a visiting professor at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. From 1976 until now, he has participated in up to 80 exhibitions and international projects. In 2022, T. Javakhi participated in a Hôtel Drouot auction with his painting "Man with a pipe" estimated at 1000-1500 EUR. T. Javakhi works in different mediums and creates with different non-traditional materials: in addition to conceptual easel works, artistic word objects, photo art, and installations, the artist works in video art. The artist has been participating in exhibitions since 1976, both in Georgia and abroad, and in the 1990s. In 2010 he participated in the exhibition project Do Not Try to Understand Me, held at the Villa Arson Center for Contemporary Art in Paris (Curators: E. Mangion. and S. Pluot.). He frequently participates in different French, German, and other foreign projects. His works are displayed next to artists like Marcel Duchamp, Kazimir Malevich, Nam June Paik, Le Corbusier, David Kakabadze, Niko Pirosmani, Sergo Parajanov, Richard Serra, Hans Scheib, Hans Hendrik Grimmling, Marina Abramovich, and others. In August 2016, the Tbilisi National Gallery hosted a large personal exhibition of the artist: Word Objects - MIRRORIMM. Around 150 of the artist's works were presented: art objects, visual documentation, 11 samples of video art, word objects, and installations, also the series The Knight in the Panther's Skin, which is preserved in the archives of the Georgian National Museum. T. Javakhi started his active work in the field of contemporary art in 1983, but before that, he had done some early experimental videos and conceptual works. List of Exhibitions and Projects (Selected) 2019 - "Invalid Memorabilia", G. Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia 2018 - International group exhibition - "State of Play", Aliyev Contemporary Art Center, Baku, Azerbaijan 2018 - International group exhibition, "State of Play", Contemporary Art Gallery, Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia 2016 - Solo exhibition MIRRORRIM, National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 2015 - Project "The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Vepkhistkaosani ) - Artist's book", Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia 2015 - International exhibition "A letter finds the addressee" Paris, France; New York, USA 2014 - International project "Font", Tbilisi, Georgia; Bochum, Germany 2013 - International exhibition "Georgian Video Art", Aarhus, Denmark 2012 - Underground of 1980-90's, Tbilisi National Gallery, Georgia 2012 - International exhibition, gallery "Alte Schule Adlershof", Berlin, Germany 2011 - International project "TRANS", Contemporary Art Center, Paris, France 2010 - International project "Stop Trying to Understand Me", Nice, France 2009 - International exhibition "Tbilisi Underground",Nantes, France 2008 - International exhibition, Frankfurt, Marburg, Germany 2003 -