Zhang Huan "Three Heads Six Arms"

San Francisco, February 2011

Heinrich Khunrath - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae 1602

The Anathomy Museum, Sirilai Hospital, Bangkok

"Музей Анатомии" при огромном больничном комплексе Сирилай, очень странное место. Далекий от расхожих туристических "троп", музей со
скрипящим полом, пыльными потолками, дремлющим стражем у входа, записавшим мое имя в "амбарную" книгу и экспонатами в растворе формалина, которые запрещенно фотографировать. Пришлось проявлять смекалку, без фотографий из этого музея я решил не возвращатся.

Michael Mayer "Atlanta fugiens" 1618

Famous alchemist Jean d'Espagnet, praised the emblems of Atalanta fugiens 'because they depict with sufficient clarity for clairvoyant eyes what is most secret and hidden in the Great Work'

"Atlanta fugiens" printed in 1617 and 1618 by Hieronymus Galler

David Kakabadze "Self Portraits" 1913-1917

Destiny in the end was very favorable to the young Kakabadze – he did not end up on the front of the first world war, he continued to work in the homefront, and probably as an engineer at the Shliselburg Powder Factory. It was a difficult time and young artists living in St Petersburg in 1917 – which became Petrograd- could not but witness the beginning of the revolution and the preparations to take over from the Bolsheviks
Lado Pochkhua, New York, 2010

David Kakabadze "Georgian Mountains" 1930-35

In these half-abstract paintings in the series “Mountains”, the artist shows the grandeur of his native Western Georgia with high craftsmanship, and in the manner of painting you can see the wholeness of a realistic image woven from tiny abstract pieces like a carpet. He teaches the viewer how to look at the landscape and see its beauty. These works didn’t appear from nowhere – in the 1917 “Imereti, My Mother” you can see this language of representation already. It’s amazing that after 17 years in France he would return to this visual style.

Lado Pochkhua, November, 2010

Carlo Maria Mariani

"On large scale, Carlo Maria Mariani creates enigmatic scenes of classical nudes juxtaposed with absurd details. His paintings are beautifully conceived...[he] situates his elegant Greco-Roman figures in ludicrous and disturbing circumstances...The artist thus reveals his 'hand' in painted artifice and once again startles us with the unforeseen."

- Mary Schneider Enriquez, Artnews