The Gallery at the Marmara Manhattan

Located in the lobby of The Marmara Manhattan, this impressive gallery space is a highlight of both the property and the neighborhood. The light-filled room has become a forum for both established and up-and-coming artists from the local and international art scenes. The Marmara Manhattan provides free public access to the gallery, open every day between 11am - 7 pm.

GOGI CHAGELISHVILI The Game on the Wall Curated by Zishan Ugurlu Ph.D

June 21 - October 7, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6-8 PM

The Marmara - Manhattan Gallery is pleased to present “The Game on the Wall”, an exhibition by Georgia based artist Gogi Chagelishvili.

Cogi Chagelishvili was born in Soviet Georgia and he was one of the artists ‘swimming against the current” who maintained his avant-garde thinking even when he was living behind the “iron curtain”. As the art historian Ketevan Kintsurashvili said “He has created his private, individual, ‘language’, hence no difficulty in joining various principles together turning eclecticism into ‘one’s own’ method. Even when creating abstractions Gogi Chagelishvili takes the sense of reality as an initial point. His abstractions originate not from any independent line or color, but from vivid objects or materials, space, structure and environment, saturated with real thoughts, feelings and individual emotions”

He paints on canvas or wooden board creating strong, highly personal, poetic, accessible yet complex images. He is the silent voice of abandon streets, floating islands, ships, bridges, sea with mosaic blue, and ‘kintsora’ women.

He is one of the artist who know that “talent can not originate, genius must” and he originates with endless inspiration to the viewers eye.

His extensive exhibition record includes the Art Museum-Tbilisi Georgia, Oust Museum- Moscow Russia, Nim Gallery-France, Dobson Bashford Gallery-New Zealand, Gallery Winkelmann-Germany, Gallery Cora-Canada, and many other most prominent Galleries in Turkey, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain and U.S.A.