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“Life is born from emptiness… When I take a look at a seemingly empty, static surface, I get the feeling of eternity, where the forms give birth to an idea, and vice versa,” says Levan Songulashvili, New York-based well-known Georgian visual artist, who has created the first mural – Associo – in the…
Levan Songulashvili’s work has always been suspended in a sort of liminal state of being. The depth of his research is indefinable and everything is intrinsically connected to another. At first glance the main feature of Songulashvili’s works is their organicity, the color strokes almost seem to be mixed with saliva, and one seems…
In 2019, Songulashvili was artist in residence in Singapore, where he realized a multimedia solo project named “Stoicheîon 金星”. The show presented two monumental video installations and a selection of Japanese-ink paintings at the Objectifs – a centre for photography and film, Chapel Gallery. “Asian culture and the pulse of the future served as an…
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…
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 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…
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
“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…
Japanese photographer, Yuriko Takagi collaboration with Levan Songulashvili at The STYX 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…
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…
