David Kakabadze Archives
From May 2021 to July 2022, our team has worked on the conservation, cataloguing and archiving of David Kakabadze's writings, documents and artworks. As part of the Kakabadze Foundation archives, these materials comprise sketches, manuscripts, printed matter and artistic output, in which his artworks dialogue and overlap with his study of optics and stereo-cinematic experiments.
Kakabadze was an avant-garde painter, graphic artist, and set designer. He was a polymath who was also an art scholar, a cinematographic innovator and an amateur photographer. Born in Georgia, the artist moved to Paris in 1919, where he began to conduct more conceptual and scientific research, thanks to his direct contact with personalities active within the avant-garde and Dada movements.
Kakabadze was working against rigorous acts of erasure and censorship since his return to Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1928, thoroughly documenting his practice, including materials related to his research of Georgian material culture, frescoes and ornaments, which deeply inspired his artistic approach.
Archives courtesy of David Kakabadze Foundation
Project team: Nina Akhvlediani, Tamar Kalkhitashvili, Mariam Kalkhitashvili, Sophie de Saint Phalle
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From May 2021 to July 2022, our team has worked on the conservation, cataloguing and archiving of David Kakabadze's writings, documents and artworks. As part of the Kakabadze Foundation archives, these materials comprise sketches, manuscripts, printed matter and artistic output, in which his artworks dialogue and overlap with his study of optics and stereo-cinematic experiments.
Kakabadze was an avant-garde painter, graphic artist, and set designer. He was a polymath who was also an art scholar, a cinematographic innovator and an amateur photographer. Born in Georgia, the artist moved to Paris in 1919, where he began to conduct more conceptual and scientific research, thanks to his direct contact with personalities active within the avant-garde and Dada movements.
Kakabadze was working against rigorous acts of erasure and censorship since his return to Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1928, thoroughly documenting his practice, including materials related to his research of Georgian material culture, frescoes and ornaments, which deeply inspired his artistic approach.
Archives courtesy of David Kakabadze Foundation
Project team: Nina Akhvlediani, Tamar Kalkhitashvili, Mariam Kalkhitashvili, Sophie de Saint Phalle
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