- Source: Temo Javakhi
Temur Javakhishvili (Georgian: თემურ ჯავახიშვილი), known professionally as Temo Javakhi (Georgian: თემო ჯავახი), is a Georgian artist born in 1951. Javakhi works in various media – 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
Javakhi graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1976 and since then, he has participated in up to 80 exhibitions and international projects. From 1985, he has been a member of the Artists Union in Georgia. Since 2015, Javakhi has been working as a visiting professor at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.
In 2022, Javakhi participated in a Hôtel Drouot auction with his painting "Man with a pipe" estimated at 1000-1500 EUR.
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.
He has participated in exhibitions since 1976, both in Georgia and abroad. 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.
).
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. 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 – International forum "Caucasus" (Photography, Video, Cinema) Strasbourg, Mulhouse, France
2002 – International project "Art-Agitation", Yekaterinburg, Russia
1999 – Solo project "From East to West", N – Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
1998 – Performance "Kart-Veli" (Georgian), Tbilisi, Georgia
1997 – Solo project "TRANS" and video "Silk Man", Old Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
1994 – Solo exhibition "P.S." Tbilisi State Theatre of Marionettes, Georgia
1991 – Solo exhibition "Lettrism",Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Georgia
1976 – Exhibition "Young Artists", National Gallery,Tbilisi, Georgia
