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“Memorial Monuments of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Georgia”

Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia Grant, Supporting Research of Georgia’s Cultural and Material Heritage Abroad

Project N HE-18-339, 2018 – 2021.

Principle inavestigator – Ekaterine Kvachatadze,
Coordinator – Giorgi Papashvili,

Researchers: Manon Liluashvili, Nodar Aronishidze.
Project consultant – PhD in History Eldar Nadiradze,

Editor of the Monograph – PhD in Art History Samson Lezhava.

The Project foresees the quest and studies of the memorial monuments, preserved in Georgia from the Medieval Ages to the 1930s

Within the Project, the inventory and quest (with the indication of GPS coordinates), detailed photo recording, classification, and analysis of more than 2000 monuments (gravestones, memorial sculptures, obelisks, architectural dwellings, lamb, and horse sculptures) was undertaken in the most regions of Georgia. Based on the materials, the annotated list of monuments was compiled.

The Project foresees the publication of the bilingual (Georgian and English) monograph on Georgian memorial monuments with multiple illustrations.

Within the project, two articles were published by the project participants in academic journals and two presentations were made at the international academic conferences.

International Conference
Protection of Cultural Heritage on Occupied Territories: Georgia and International Experience

24-25/06/2021

Organizers:
The George Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation; Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts and Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology at Tbilisi State University

Partners:
Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield; Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia

Conference Program:
https://el.ge/articles/537913…

Art and the Space – Davit Kakabadze
A Researcher, Thinker, Artist

On May the 24-25, 2021 a scientific conference was organized on the initiative of the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation together with the Davit Kakabadze Foundation:
Art and the space – Davit Kakabadze – a researcher, thinker, artist.
The conference was held in online format and eighteen reports were given.
The aim of the conference was to collect and reveal the variety and all trends of Davit kakabadze’s artistic heritage with ultimate fullness.  There were represented researches about his easel painting, graphic arts, sculpture, film painting and theatre decoration.
Davit Kakabadze, an artist – in the context of Georgian art;
Davit Kakabadze, an artist – in the context of All-European artistic thinking.