Friday, January 16, 2009
Portfolio presentation @ Arci Gallery
 
Kote Jincharadze, born in 1962 in Georgia, lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. 1985 he graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Since 2001 he is a Professor at the Faculty of Design of the Academy. Jincharadze is a conceptual artist mainly working with objects, photography and performance. The main theme in his artworks is the system of values. He is concerned with different objects, hierarchy of positions/attitudes, and physical and spiritual parameters. His art reflects the merging of material and spiritual settings.
 
The artist is a founder of ‘Arteli Ratcha’ foundation, which has been successfully organizing and hosting contemporary art workshops in the village of Chkvishi in the Ratcha region, Georgia. Jincharadze has been participating in many national and international shows in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Switzerland and Turkey. In 2005 he was a curator of the international art convention “Art-Caucasus” in Tbilisi.