Irakli Parjiani

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Description

Irakli Parjiani
Crucifixion (From Berlin Cycle Series)
signed and dated 89
acrylic on canvas
124 by 130cm.; 48 7/8 by 51 1/8 in.

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
Baia Gallery, Tbilisi

Exhibited

Rome, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Irakli Parjiani. Arte Sacra Contemporanea della Georgia, 1997, p. 39, illustrated
Tbilisi, New Gallery, Irakli Parjiani: Paintings, Graphics, 2011, no. 29, illustrated in colour

Literature

Asmat Pitskelauri-Parjiani, Ed., Irakli Parjiani: Painting, Graphics, Illustration, Tbilisi 2009, p. 388, illustrated in colour

Catalogue Note

Crucifixion (1989) is from a series of paintings titled the Berlin Cycle (1989-1990) that Irakli Parjiani completed a year before his death. The artist concentrated on themes of religion, landscape and abstraction throughout his life. Reworking similar subjects held a conceptual significance for the artist who treated them as meditation. The artist has said himself: "I think I am through with the theme of the Annunciation, but the more variations I paint the more new ideas crop up and it has become an endless, inexhaustible theme in my work. Concentration on one theme for its profound conceptualization and perception is by far more important to me than a rapid progression and variety."^[1] Crucifixion, along with the other paintings from the series, such as Annunciation (1989), in their ethereal, almost abstract spirituality can be seen as the swan song of Parjiani's creative career.

^[1]The artist quoted in B. Tsikoridze, Irakli Parjiani, Tbilisi, 2011.