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STOICHEÎON 金星
Chapel Gallery, OBJECTIFS 19 to 24 Feb 2019 Opening Reception: Wed 20 Feb, 7pm Singapore Stoicheîon 金星 presents two monumental video installations and a selection of Japanese-ink paintings by Georgian-born and New York-based artist Levan Songulashvili, who is currently a resident artist at INSTINC. The term stoicheion was in antiquity fundamentally linked to the classical theory of the…
The Strokes of Genius 11
Levan Songulashvili is among the winners of the “Strokes of Genius”. The artist’s two pieces, “Dionise” (2018) and “Face” (2017) were chosen by Steven Assael, the editorial staff of North Light Books and Artists Magazine. The both works are representative of Songulashvili’s unique character as an artist. The theme for “Strokes of Genius 11” is Finding Beauty…
SYNESTHESIA
On November 26, 2018, Levan Songulashvili’s art performance SYNESTHESIA took place at the Rustaveli National Theatre underground space – New Kimerioni. Songulashvili’s experimental-performative project combines two fundamental blending forms: visual and hearing SYNESTHESIA perception. Performance manifests through total improvisation and spontaneity. In this case, art and music deliberately layers one another: through interchanging…
“Idem et Idem” World Premiere
Several months ago, composer Giya Kancheli visited Levan Songulashvili’s solo show The STYX. Inspired by one of Songulashvili’s painting series “Idem et Idem”, the composer entitled his recent musical piece for choir and chamber orchestra with the same name. Songulashvili says: “Kancheli asked me some questions about one of the exhibited pieces called “IDEM ET…
The System of Objects
The possession of an independent sense of emergent identity is a major concern of Levan Songulashvili, and is further indicated by his System of Objects video-sculpture installation, that deals specifically with singularity and the collective through means of repetition. A singular figure stands transfixed in the centre and median point of the concourse of…
THE STYX
The STYX by Levan Songulashvili is an installation of mental, emotional, and psychological passage. It refers to a sense of exigent myth and allegory, alluding to the famous mythological river as a site of psychical transformation. It is the point of transit and entry to the imagined underworld, and stands for the experience of life…
Levan Songulashvili & Issey Miyake SS18 | AMARTA Magazine
AMARTA Magazine Summer 2018 Issue Levan Songulashvili in a collaboration with Issey Miyake ss18 ERTI Gallery Photographed by Yuriko Takagi Participating dancers of Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet
BLACK SEA
“In the exhibition “Black Sea” 68 Projects presented black and white philosophical approach to painting by Levan Songulashvili. The motives and emotional medium is water, its energy, its depth and intangibility, its fire, its colors. The elixir of life that, like the air we breathe, is fleeting and unfathomable, yet unlike air – leaves no…
A Voyaged Dream Into the Ravelled Beyond – A Site of Psychical Transformation
Japanese photographer, Yuriko Takagi at The STYX by Levan Songulashvili Photographer: 峯竜也 Amarta Magazine | ERTI Gallery | 2018. The STYX is an installation of mental, emotional, and psychological passage. It refers to a sense of exigent myth and allegory, alluding to the famous mythological river as a site of psychical transformation.…
The STYX Opening
The STYX is a multimedia project that combines large-scale oil and acrylic paintings, ink drawings, video-sculpture and installation of Levan Songulashvili who, in recent years, has joined the grand list of artists choosing to reflect meditative consciousness. The name of the project is connected to the mythological river and stands as a symbol of radical…