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METAL Magazine – INSIDE THE SKIN I LIVE IN Levan Songulashvili

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Levan Songulashvili is a New York based, Georgian visual artist, whose works are held in public and private collections worldwide and have been exhibited and sold in numerous venues across the US and Europe, including Saatchi Gallery, Sotheby’s and Brooklyn Museum. Having graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts Levan was granted several scholarships to continue his Master studies at New York Academy of Art. The critics and world-known artists… Read More »METAL Magazine – INSIDE THE SKIN I LIVE IN Levan Songulashvili

Royal Academy of Arts “FROM LIFE”

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Levan Songulashvili’s artworks of the American rock legend Iggy Pop will be on view in an exhibition opening at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. The exhibition presents contemporary work in diverse media by various artists including Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Chantal Joffe, Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing. Now, on the cusp of the RA’s 250th anniversary, this special exhibition project takes an inquisitive look at the tradition and its ongoing… Read More »Royal Academy of Arts “FROM LIFE”

The Jellyfish in Manhattan – Indigo Magazine

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The Indigo magazine, edition N4, January 2016 (page 38-47)Art critic, Khatuna Khabuliani’s interview with Levan Songulashvili Levan Songulashvili is a young artist. Levan holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and is studying in NYC now. As far as the world of contemporary visual art has been a partially shared experience for us so far, this space, with its complexity, diversity, conflicts and institutions,… Read More »The Jellyfish in Manhattan – Indigo Magazine

AMARTA MAGAZINE – THE JELLYFISH FROM THE STYX SHORE

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AMARTA Magazine 2017 Summer, White Issue THE JELLYFISH FROM THE STYX SHORE – Levan Songulashvili Text by art critic David Andriadze Photography by Zaqaria Chelidze Levan Songulashvili is a “Black-and-White” thinking contemporary artist who has studied overseas and is a very serious-minded, purposeful and also well-organized unlike lots of other artists of his generation. The goal-oriented contemporary artist also masters “Self-Design” technologies. He knows that the whole of today’s “celebrity culture”… Read More »AMARTA MAGAZINE – THE JELLYFISH FROM THE STYX SHORE

The STYX Opening

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The STYX is a multimedia project that combines large-scale oil and acrylic paintings, ink drawings, video-sculpture and installation of Levan Songulashvili who, in recent years, has joined the grand list of artists choosing to reflect meditative consciousness. The name of the project is connected to the mythological river and stands as a symbol of radical change and a movement from the visible world to the invisible realm. Consequently, the exposition is… Read More »The STYX Opening

The STYX Book Presentation

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The Styx is a book of mental, emotional, and psychological passage by Levan Songulashvili. It refers to a sense of exigent myth and allegory, alluding to the famous mythological river as a site of psychical transformation. It is the point of transit and entry to the imagined underworld, and stands for the experience of life as that of journey and passage, a voyaged dream into the ravelled beyond, leading to an awakening that… Read More »The STYX Book Presentation

Levan Songulashvili wins People’s Choice for artwork at NY National Art Show

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Levan Songulashvili was honoured at the New York’s annual Black & White National Juried Art Exhibition with a People’s Choice award for his work. Songulashvili’s piece The Styx Portrait was picked for the prize with a popular vote. The artwork was recognized following a voting involving invited artists, art critics and members of the organising Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) art society. The oil and acrylic work, from Songulashvili’s project THE… Read More »Levan Songulashvili wins People’s Choice for artwork at NY National Art Show

Levan Songulashvili selected for famed New York museum collection

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Levan Songulashvili has become the first Georgian artist whose works have been selected for the permanent collection of the New York’s Brooklyn Museum. Four works created by Songulashvili during a 2016 project for portraying American rock legend Iggy Pop were picked by curators of the venue, one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The decision means drawings by the Georgian artist are now part of… Read More »Levan Songulashvili selected for famed New York museum collection