This contemporary Georgian artist was one of the most original talents to emerge from post-Soviet visual culture. Inspired by Persian miniatures and Georgian mediaeval frescoes (on which his father was a scholar) Abramishvili developed a traditional technique using hand-prepared plaster and tempera paints sealed with egg yolk to create a translucent palette and works of exceptional delicacy. Like the ancient art that inspired him, Abramishvili prized decorativeness and pattern over realism and perspective and his thematic preoccupations were no less ancient: beauty, peace, music, eternity.