ANTON BALANCHIVADZE
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The Mountain - 23,5x23,5 Acrylic on Canvas
Ascension - 70x50 Mixed Media on Canvas
On Visual Language
Anton Balanchivadze is a contemporary Georgian artist whose painting, over time, has moved toward a quieter and more condensed visual language. While maintaining a clear connection to figuration, his works increasingly carry meanings that are not immediately given but slowly revealed. What unfolds in his paintings is not offered at once, but asks for attention — inviting the viewer to see, to connect, and to recognize through their own effort. In this sense, the works do not point toward abstract, generalized values, but turn instead toward the viewer, finding their significance within personal experience.
His visual language has taken shape through a dialogue between independent exploration and academic formation. A graduate of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Balanchivadze’s practice engages tradition without being bound by it. His paintings are readily recognizable to those who encounter them — not through repetition, but through a consistent atmosphere carried by color, form, and presence across different themes and periods.
" For an artist - artistic creativity should be a mean, - not a goal.
... If we begin to love our vocation and craft more, than what they proclaim, what they strive for, for what they exist, - we will quietly become idolaters in art, forgetting about its true purpose".
... The role of each, individual person is inconceivably big. One cannot think of some objective truth, or such concepts, like: Mission of Art, The Homeland, Goodness, Justice, Future of People in whole World and etc. - without thinking about concrete people, concrete acquaintances and specific experiences. The meeting of each person with another is a newly arisen new world. The more memorable, emotional, meaningful, important the meeting is, the more true and majestic is what occurs, more truthfully we cognize reality, more valuable life becomes".
Exhibition "Gardens" at the Baia Gallery
Garden "grown" by Anton Balanchivadze
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For visualization of the garden the artist resorts to a traditional mythologem: a landscape model with a triad of the eart, the sky and a creature, using a form of a fairy tale mystery and non-hierarcichal programme of totem, which implies equality and unuin of all creatures.
He offers us magic gardens where forests are covered with mystery, trees and plants are a symbol of cosmogonous structure, and people and animals act according to a heraldic or narrative scenario. The artist sees the garden as a structure of the world that he deems superior: the harmony permeated with the tint of mystery unites the earth, the sky, plants, animals and human beings.
The artist's programme that reflects a humanistic viepoint of the existence of the world is expressed by an image of the garden or created by the elements of the garden. He substitutes realistic compositions with abstractions where the motive of the garden is just indicated.
Replacing the reality with abstraction allows the artist the freedom of action to turn the concept of a garden into a symbol where a rational approach turns into an irrational and emotional presentation and the specific topic into a universal value.
(Text fragment from exhibition catalogue)
About
the Artist
Anton Balanchivadze’s work does not invite explanation so much as attention. When encountering his paintings, one quickly senses that familiar critical language is of limited use here. His practice unfolds outside fixed categories, guided less by theory than by a sustained, attentive relationship with what surrounds him.
His visual language is unmistakably personal. While echoes of art history may occasionally surface — not as references, but as distant resonances — they are absorbed into a living, present dialogue. These moments feel less like influence and more like recognition: a quiet exchange with artists and ideas that matter to him, continued through contemporary form and perception.
What defines Balanchivadze’s painting is a particular restraint. His works do not seek to persuade or instruct. Meaning is never imposed. Instead, it emerges through material presence — through color, texture, rhythm, and the calm insistence of form. The viewer is not directed, but invited to remain, to look again, and to trust their own perception.
In these paintings, attention itself becomes central. Ordinary elements — trees, figures, fragments of landscape — appear not as symbols, but as carriers of lived presence. They suggest that significance is neither distant nor abstract, but formed through careful seeing. What has been encountered before may reappear here with altered weight, as if renewed through the act of looking.
Artist in focus
Seen at the Bridge is a joint exhibition of works by father and son Balanchivadze, bringing together up to 60 paintings by Jarji Balanchivadze and more than 40 canvases by Anton Balanchivadze. Installations created especially for this project were also exhibited.
The host of the exhibition - Georgian National Gallery
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“Seen At The Bridge” Exhibition In National gallery
Installation Material And Spiritual Life
Wood, Rotband Plaster, Hay, Cloth Net Georgian National Gallery 2023
Seen At The Bridge
(Exhibition wall text)“In the days of winter, when the longest nights are coming to the end, the world awaits the beginning of longer daylight and the glorious celebration of Christmas.
The interrelations of the past and the future, the earthly and the solar, the departed and the living, and the connection between the mysteries of the Christmas and Easter holidays all require such a spiritual background, where the "present" lights up as an eternally essential, living, and creative force to comprehend the essential.
It manifests itself in immensely significant, symbol-icons and signs, flows in a variety of ways all the time, and impresses us with relationships we have personally experienced, missed, and cherished.
We call the "bridge" that which informs us of the closeness of consciousness or feeling of the sacral life-giving source.”
Anton Balanchivadze
“The world unfolds through continuous transformation. In the rhythms of nature — the slow growth of trees, the shifting contours of mountains, the quiet development of organic forms — an active creative impulse can be sensed, shaping visible reality.”
“What we perceive in nature as valuable, wise, or beautiful is never static; it carries an inner movement, as if calling toward action and continuation. For the artist, this call becomes perceptible through attentive looking.
The artist can perceive something that stands behind the visible manifestations of nature, as an impulse toward artistic creation, and at times the task is for the artist to intuit an intention that nature once held but could not fully manifest for various reasons, and to continue this intention through artistic means, in the language dictated by the inner voice while working on the canvas.”
Anton Balanchivadze
IKE Asian Fusion / Lopota Resort
Murals by Anton Balanchivadze
Lopota Lake / Lopota Resort
Fisherman - Installation / 2018 / Anton Balanchivadze
Freezlight
Freezlight, or light drawing, traces its modern roots to a 1949 experiment in which photographer Gjon Mili invited Pablo Picasso to draw in the air with a small light source, capturing the movement through long-exposure photography. In this technique, light becomes the drawing tool and the camera records the full gesture as a single image. In contemporary practice — including the collaborative freezlight performances created by artist Anton Balanchivadze and photographer Anton Sokolov — light-based movement functions as a spatial form of painting, where forms exist only in motion and become visible solely through the photographic process.
Anton Balanchivadze, while painting with light in the dark, transforms a fleeting gesture of light into a visible form.
Studio
This photograph was taken in the artist’s studio in Tbilisi. Unlike a gallery setting, works here appear in their working state — arranged, developed, or re-examined. Visitors occasionally have the opportunity to see paintings in progress and observe how they take shape within the studio environment.
Watching
20x100 Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
The work resonates with a scene from Rustaveli’s epic poem, where the hero Avtandil watches Asmat from the shelter of the thicket as she steps out of the cave. The piece belongs to the cycle Seen by the Bridge, presented at the National Gallery.
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