Archaeological monuments of the Gareja DesertMonastery of St. John the Baptist  

Author Zuarb Tvalchrelidze – PhD History, Deputy Director General of the Georgian National Museum. 

The Gerorgian National Museum and its time-honored structural unit, the Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia, jointly with the Gareja Studies Centre, are launching a serial of the works of Zurab Tvalchrelidze, historian-archaeologist.  

The publications will be devoted to the results of historical-archaeological study of the cave complexes of the Gareja monastic association and rock-cut monastic seats of Georgia.  

 

The inaugural TEDxTbilisi event will be held on the 11th of February, 2012 at Tbilisi State University.   The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is a one-day event of inspiration and ideas.

  

The theme for TEDxTbilisi is “The Long View”, reminding us that despite the frantic pace of day to day life, humanity, economics, and culture all follow an extended arch of development and growth.  The overall program strives to illuminate that which is unique, innovative and inspiring from - and about – Georgia’s past and present.  

   

In the TED tradition, each speaker is challenged to give "the talk of his or her life" in 18 minutes or less.  Professor David Lordkipanidze, Director General of the Georgian National Museum and Her Excellency, Diana Janse, Swedish Ambassador to Georgia, are just two of the illustrious people presenting that day.  

  

The speakers for TEDxTbilisi were chosen for a variety of reasons – some for the passion they have for their topics, some for their inspired thinking, while others were asked to speak because of their widely acclaimed accomplishments. Topics will range from science to music and from art to diplomacy.

 

Exhibition „Three Friends” is a creative meeting of artworks by three artists – Otar Vepkhvadze (ceramics), Ivars Bumbiers (paintings) and Peteris Martinsons (ceramics). With zest towards their work. With love towards two beautiful countries – Latvia and Georgia. With respect to their Friends.

Otar Vepkhvadze is a painter in ceramics. For him creating ceramics is collaboration between hands and emotions. Artist’s power transforms solid material – clay into fragile, emotional creation. Otar’s works include a range of unique images with pictorial women’s faces, fabulous animals, and variations of simple ceramic forms. He works in various techniques (clay, chamotte, metal, glass, wood), and uses different surfaces, colors, forms shapes. His unique art is charged with the positive energy and Otar’s creative mojo is limitless.

Ivars Bumbier’s constantly trained architectural vision and thought helps him to perceive motifs of nature and architecture creatively and insightfully. When in nature, viewing buildings, landscapes, and the human body, in moments of contemplation or during distant trips – the sketchbook always fills unpredictably with expressive drafts caught in the moment. This is how motifs pile up. Afterwards the chosen motif is developed into a painting or ink work and the composition usually gains a more complete and laconic conclusion.

Peteris Martinson’s true material is porcelain – fragile and attracted by light, it doesn’t make you think about the mundane but rather wake your dreams and make you feel unreal. The artist’s world – enigmatic, suggestive and enchanting. When coming into contact with light, porcelain becomes translucent, even more fragile and delicate thus urging us to think of the spiritual dimensions. Peteris Martinson’s art and personality is not only a part of Latvian but also world’s art circuit, he is one of the most noted Latvian contemporary artists in the world.

 

15 September – 16 October, 2011

Georgian woods still preserve wild vine (Vitis sylvestris), which gives us reason for claiming that domestication of vine could have occurred locally. Archaeobotanical data show that it really happened here: there have been excavated seeds of already domesticated vine which are the earliest in the world and belong to Neolithic epoch. The agriculture of this period on the territory of Georgia is based on a wide assortment of cultivated plants which had already been differentiated botanically: presence of highly developed wheat, barley, leguminous plants attest to a long pre-history of productive economy (radiocarbon dates: 7662-7868 cal BP; 7690-7775 cal BP). Vine seeds have been recovered at the sites of Bronze age in Georgia in the IV-II millennia BC. From the II millennium BC Paleobotanical data provide table sorts of vine as well which implies a further stage of evolution of vine.

Georgian Naional Museum and Dmanisi Field School present series of public lectures at Dmanisi Museum-Reserve.  Program consists of: 

• Interesting tour around Dmanisi settlement and archeological site

• Public lecture led by the worldwide famous scientists• Evening cocktail reception

• Comfortable trip: Tbilisi-Dmanisi-Tbilisi The first lecture will be delivered by Dr. Bernard Wood on 26th of July 2011. The subject of the lecture is “Origin of genus Homo”.

9 July – 9 November, 2011

The Georgian National Museum  in collaboration with Georgian Folk Craft program invites you to the free workshop of  the folk craft in the G. Chitaia Open Air Museum of Ethnography.

 The aim of the project is to maintain the existing tradition of folk craft in Georgia. The project is being implemented with the UNESCO support. On the background of common globalization, the folk craft, as the undivided part of the country’s culture with its distinctive and esthetic expressiveness, is becoming more and more important.

21 June – 20 July, 2011

The Georgian National Museum presents contemporary Indian warli folk art exhibition by Babita Biswas Warliat at the Sh. Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts. Painting originates from Maharashtra, a state in western India.

Warlis are tribal’s who live in the Thana district of Maharashtra, in simple dwellings of clay and reed plastered with cow dung.  Women of the Warli tribe use this art form to decorate the walls of their homes. They paint on their ‘chowks’ (courtyard) during marriages and other times of festivity. They also paint about their life, festivals, and Gods.   

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