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“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 STYX [part 1]
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…
The System of Objects — STYX [part 2]
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…
“Black Sea” Exhibition in Berlin – Levan Songulashvili
“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.…
Levan Songulashvili in a collaboration with 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
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…
The STYX Book Presentation
Author — Levan Songulashvili, Mark Gisbourne Publisher — ERTI Gallery Page Count — 128 ISBN:978994180083 Editor — Mark Gisbourne Book Format — Hardback Book Design — Giorgi Dadiani Additional writer — Dr. Marleen Stoessel Photographers — Elena Olivo (Brooklyn Museum), Giorgi Dadiani, Guram Kapanadze, Alex Aptsiauri, Zakaria Chelidze, Gia Gagoshidze, Levan Songulashvili 1 The S T Y…
Levan Songulashvili at ART GENÈVE 2018
At Art Geneve ERTI Gallery presented Levan Songulashvili’s works from “The STYX” series, comprised of large-scale canvases that feature large expanses of grey-black washes infused with an otherworldly light; vast tonal shifts; and a primordial glow that hovers between the mythic and the bioluminescent.