This whimsical drawing features a vibrant color palette of reds, blues, and pastels, creating a surreal and imaginative composition. The central image depicts an abstract, cloud-like structure with protruding organic shapes, resembling mushrooms or other natural forms. Below, a small human figure stands in awe, gazing up at the towering, cosmic-inspired scene. The artist's expressive, sketch-like style and use of bold, sweeping lines convey a sense of energy and mysticism. This piece appears to explore themes of the natural world, spirituality, and humanity's connection to the divine or the unknown, reflecting the artistic sensibilities of the early 20th-century avant-garde. ...
Primarily working with pencil on paper, Maia Naveriani focuses on drawing as her main medium. She intertwines signs and symbols from pop culture, biblical stories, Greek mythology, fairy tales, and classical literature with her personal experiences to critically explore the female subject within a patriarchal framework. Text is integral to her unique visual language, incorporating fragments of everyday conversations, advertisements, and tabloid headlines, which she removes from their original contexts to open spaces for critical reflection. Recurring themes in her work include parenthood, domestic and emotional labor, pleasure, and love, all explored through the lens of a female body navigating a male-dominated reality. Her work has expanded to address broader political concerns such as emigration, labor conditions, and gender issues. Grounded in daily sketching and diaristic narratives, Naveriani describes her process as ephemeral and conceptual, resisting fixed truths. Her work exists as ideas, questions, and reflections—alive in their openness rather than definitive answers. ...
Gallery Artbeat is a pioneering contemporary art gallery based in Tbilisi, Georgia representing mid-career and emerging Georgian artists.
Between 2014-2017 the gallery started its journey as a project space, a moving gallery using a shipping container for site-specific exhibitions to introduce contemporary art in peripheral locations where museums and galleries don't function. In October 2017 the gallery found it's permanent home in the heart of Tbilisi.
The gallery has a significant presence on the international art scene, collaborating with major institutions and museums and taking part in art fairs such as NADA Miami, Untitled Miami, Art Dubai, Artissima, Art Cologne.
Our aim is to support artists throughout their artistic journeys, foster cultural activities both locally and abroad, collaborate with international galleries and organisations and mark Georgia on an international art map. ...
