About The Artwork
“Ali and Nino” by Sergo Tbileli is a poignant painting inspired by Kurban Said’s novel, set in 1914-1920 Baku and Tbilisi. It captures the forbidden love between Muslim Ali Khan Shirvanshir and Christian Nino Kipiani. In the artwork, Ali appears to rest in a flower bed, but closer inspection reveals Nino as the very air he breathes. The three-part composition reflects their love’s beauty and its entwined connection with the captivating Caucasus nature. The painting presents an eternal cycle of love, nature, and longing.
About Sergo Tbileli
Sergo Tbileli is a prolific Georgian contemporary artist, he began his professional carrier in the early 70s in Soviet Georgia. While still pursuing his studies at the Tbilisi state academy. During his studies, he worked on monumental murals and sculptures all over the Soviet Union creating and contributing to the Soviet art scene. Learning different styles and evolving his style during his journeys all over the Eurasian continent. Financing his creative pursuits by working on Soviet state commissions. During his early years, he worked a lot with the ceramic medium creating one of his first series of plates. he achieved fame with his series “Georgian Motives”, which represented his colorful vision of Caucasus and Georgia mountains landscapes. Selling out his show in Istanbul. After The “Georgian Motives” series he further evolved his style and started working on his new works which combined his prior vibrant colors and movement with mythical subjects and topics on a grander scale. Some of his masterpieces from that era are “Venice Carnival” 2006, “Nude” 2005 and etc.
