Temo Javakhi
Temur Javakhishvili (), known professionally as Temo Javakhi (), is a Georgian contemporary artist born in 1951. He graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1976. Javakhi works in various mediums - video art, installation, painting, action/performance art). Javakhi shows his individual approach of conceptual analysis by playing with Dadaist forms, using postmodernist irony and expression. Career From 1985 he has been a member of the Artists Union in Georgia. Since 2015 Temo Javakhi has been working as a visiting professor at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. From 1976 until now, he has participated in up to 80 exhibitions and international projects. In 2022, T. Javakhi participated in a Hôtel Drouot auction with his painting "Man with a pipe" estimated at 1000-1500 EUR. T. Javakhi works in different mediums and creates with different non-traditional materials: in addition to conceptual easel works, artistic word objects, photo art, and installations, the artist works in video art. The artist has been participating in exhibitions since 1976, both in Georgia and abroad, and in the 1990s. In 2010 he participated in the exhibition project Do Not Try to Understand Me, held at the Villa Arson Center for Contemporary Art in Paris (Curators: E.