Departures (mezzotint)

Irakli Toklikishvili

Irakli Toklikishvili is Tbilisi based Georgian contemporary artist, who graduated bachelors and masters of fine arts faculty(printmaking direction) in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2013. After that he actively works in various mediums of graphic and painting and participates in various local and international exhibitions and art projects. He is an Assistant -Proffesor in Graphic Arts department at the Faculty of Arts and Science of Ilia State University in Tbilisi. He has conducted workshops in printmaking mediums both in Georgia and Estonia.
Irakli has also worked as an art director for animation (“Abandoned village” by Mariam Kapanadze) and documental (“Benia” by Irakli Makharadze) films.
In 2022 he's work Trip At Night (linocut) was awarded with Grand Prix at the annual linocut competition at TYPA Center in Tartu, Estonia.
In 2024 he's work Let The Water Take It Away (Mezzotint) won third awarded prize at Mini Pint Cantabria, Spain.
In his works we often see empty spaces, roads, or places between two different conditions of a mind. Also we see direct or indirect anger towards social-political events, where everything seems artificial and false, and to take the mind off from all those, he often calls dreams, or memories from the past. creates exits to a shelter, to escape from all this dirt around. And for this he uses such visual moments that often stays unnoticed during the existing insanity around. He looks at life with the sensitive eye of an artist and is not trying to escape human pain or sorrow, which is reflected in the fact that despite the diversity of motifs, all of his works share a common melancholic mood.

Geboortedatum: 15/10/1989

Nationaliteit: Georgian

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