Giorgi Shengelia - Silkscreen, Abstract.

Giorgi Shengelia was born in 1977 in the city of Sukhumi, Georgia. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi. Since 2003 Giorgi lives and works in Bergen, North Holland, a safe haven behind the dunes of the North Sea coast. Here Giorgi mainly makes paintings and mixed media. He also works on installations and sculptures. He is even active in photography. The amount of subjects Giorgi expresses in his work is endless: nature, city life, landscape, daily life, home, love, food, people, as I said: limitless. As a visual artist he is fascinated by the tensions and clashes between reality and the artificial, the visual and the intangible, the past and the future. Giorgi Shengelia's sensitive paintings range from abstract to figurative, wildly drawn or with great precision, on canvas, paper or wood. All different sizes. His expressive sculptures are often made of steel and objects from the scrap heap. Making art, celebrating life and living in freedom are Giorgi's key words for now and the future.