Georgia Expo

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The Expo Georgia (formerly Vdnkh ) is an exhibition center in Tbilisi in Georgia . It consists of a total of eleven pavilions and an entrance building. It was built from 1960 to 1971 according to the plans of the architects D. Papinashvili, Levan Mamaladze , Wladimer Nasaridze and W. Peykrishvili.

At the entrance building there is a mosaic by the artists Aliko Gorgadse and Teso Asatiani from 1963. At pavilion 8 there is a long mosaic wall by the artist Leonardo Schengelia from 1971. At pavilion 3 there is a large mosaic by the artist Guram Kalandadze from 1971.

The site was privatized after 1990 and renamed Expo Georgia.

Illustrations

  • Entrance building, mosaic: Aliko Gorgadse, Teso Asatiani (1963)

  • Sculpture at the entrance

  • Pavilion 1

  • Pavilion 3, mosaic: Guram Kalandadze (1971)

  • Pavilion 6

  • Pavilion 7

  • Pavilion 8, mosaic: Leonardo Schengelia (1971)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nina Palavandishvili, Lena Prents: Art for Architecture Georgia. Soviet Modernist Mosaics from 1960 to 1990 . DOM Publishers, 2019, pp. 67-68 .
  2. ↑ Nina Palavandishvili: Lost Heroes of Tbilisi. Soviet Period Mosaics . GeoAir, Tbilisi 2014, ISBN 978-9941-0-7011-2 .

Coordinates: 41 ° 44 ′ 28.3 "  N , 44 ° 46 ′ 39.1"  E