Rose town Painting

Levan Mosiashvili Levan Mosiashvili was born on 30 August, 1971, in Tbilisi. In 1993, he graduated from the Georgian Agricultural University, where he majored in Forestry. At the same time, he studied theatre direction. He was awarded a Candidate of Biological Sciences degree in 1996. However, he soon decided to create his own world. The first serious painting dates from 1993. Since then, painting has been his only profession. He has no academic art education, but this has never stopped his admirers from considering his works as comparable to those of Pirosmani, Chagall, Matisse, Peynet. The recognition took time, effort and commitment. He says that, for him, art is like an altar of the soul, a place for prayers. In 2008, the government of France offered Levan Mosiashvili to live and work in their country. He had already won various international art contests; his works were critically acclaimed; his exhibitions were held in France and other countries. He first visited France in 1998. In the same year, Mosiashvili won the International Competition in Marseille, and later, the Painting Contest in Carry-le-Rouet. His solo exhibitions were held in Lyon, Paris, Nice, Toulouse, Pérouges, Tournefeuille and Le Verdier. Mosiashvili’s solo exhibitions were also held in Telavi (Georgia), Signari (Georgia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Damascus and Aleppo (Syria), Saaremaa (Estonia). In 2006, his solo exhibition organized by the international University of Economics in Ankara was opened by former President of Turkey Süleyman Demirel. In the same year, another solo exhibition was held in Ankara, this time at the Austrian diplomatic mission. For the last two years, he has been interested in ‘philosophical abstraction’, as he himself calls it. He considers it to be the pinnacle of his freedom of expression: ‘France gave me liberty and encouraged me to move forward and pursue new opportunities.. In 2010, Levan Mosiashvili won an award of the international exhibition in Fonsorbes, France, for the ‘Best Modernist Abstract Work’. In the same year, he received an Honorary Award of the department of Haute-Garonne at the exhibition/contest in Auterive, a small community near Toulouse where Matisse and Picasso had spend their youth.