From September 2021 to March 2022 our team has worked on archiving, cataloguing and inventorying Georgi (Gogi) Alexi-Meskhishvili archives, as well as, substantive issues related to the storage and conservation of his artworks.
Alexi-Meskhishvili (b 1941) studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. From 1971 served as stage designer of the Shota Rustaveli Drama Theatre, Zakaria Paliashvili Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, and also cooperated with the Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre. In 1975 he was elected as head designer of the Shota Rustaveli Drama Theatre, where he designed the sets for approximately 40 performances. Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili has created costumes and set designs for the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, La Fenice (Venice), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Bavarian State Opera, the Habima Theatre (Tel Aviv), the Teatro General San Martin (Buenos Aires), the Finnish National Theatre (Helsinki), the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (St. Petersburg), the Schauspielhaus (Düsseldorf), and the Metropolitan Opera (New York). From 1995 Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili lived in the USA, where he worked as a professor at Dartmouth College. There he was awarded the title of best professor. In 1999, he represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale. After his return to Georgia in 2014, the artist established the Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili School of Contemporary Theatre and Design with support from the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia.
He is a recipient of numerous citations and honors including: State Prize of USSR (1979) and three consecutive Prize for the Best Work of the Year (1985-1987); Best Production recognition at the Edinburgh International Festival for Don Juan (1988); Felix Award at the Berlin Film Festival for his design of Sergei Paradjonov's film Ashik-Kerib (1989); Critics' Award at the Edinburgh International Festival for Midsummer Night's Dream (1994); Best Design of the Year for Carlo Gozzi's Serpentine Woman in Tbilisi, Georgia (1998); and a Helen Hayes Award for the Best Production in 2003 for Hamlet - Rest in Silence at the Sinetic Theater in Washington, D.C. Sergei Parajanov Prize (2009), Tumanishvili Prize for the excellence in the Theater (2007).
Project team: Tamar Kalmakhelidze, Oliko Khachidze, Nina Akhvlediani
Images courtesy of the Artists family
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From September 2021 to March 2022 our team has worked on archiving, cataloguing and inventorying Georgi (Gogi) Alexi-Meskhishvili archives, as well as, substantive issues related to the storage and conservation of his artworks.
Alexi-Meskhishvili (b 1941) studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. From 1971 served as stage designer of the Shota Rustaveli Drama Theatre, Zakaria Paliashvili Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, and also cooperated with the Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre. In 1975 he was elected as head designer of the Shota Rustaveli Drama Theatre, where he designed the sets for approximately 40 performances. Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili has created costumes and set designs for the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, La Fenice (Venice), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Bavarian State Opera, the Habima Theatre (Tel Aviv), the Teatro General San Martin (Buenos Aires), the Finnish National Theatre (Helsinki), the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (St. Petersburg), the Schauspielhaus (Düsseldorf), and the Metropolitan Opera (New York). From 1995 Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili lived in the USA, where he worked as a professor at Dartmouth College. There he was awarded the title of best professor. In 1999, he represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale. After his return to Georgia in 2014, the artist established the Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili School of Contemporary Theatre and Design with support from the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia.
He is a recipient of numerous citations and honors including: State Prize of USSR (1979) and three consecutive Prize for the Best Work of the Year (1985-1987); Best Production recognition at the Edinburgh International Festival for Don Juan (1988); Felix Award at the Berlin Film Festival for his design of Sergei Paradjonov's film Ashik-Kerib (1989); Critics' Award at the Edinburgh International Festival for Midsummer Night's Dream (1994); Best Design of the Year for Carlo Gozzi's Serpentine Woman in Tbilisi, Georgia (1998); and a Helen Hayes Award for the Best Production in 2003 for Hamlet - Rest in Silence at the Sinetic Theater in Washington, D.C. Sergei Parajanov Prize (2009), Tumanishvili Prize for the excellence in the Theater (2007).
Project team: Tamar Kalmakhelidze, Oliko Khachidze, Nina Akhvlediani
Images courtesy of the Artists family
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