Description
Levan Mosiashvili was born on August 30, 1971 in Tbilisi. In 1993, he graduated from the Georgian Agricultural University with a degree in Forestry. At the same time, he studied theater directing. In 1996, he was awarded a PhD in Biology. However, he soon decided to create his own world.
He does not have an academic art education, but this has never stopped his fans from comparing his works with the works of Pirosmani, Chagall, Matisse, Peine. Recognition took time, effort and dedication. He says that for him, art is like an altar of the soul, a place for prayer.
His solo exhibitions were held in Lyon, Paris, Nice, Toulouse, Perugia, Tournefeuil and Le Verdier. Mosiashvili’s solo exhibitions have also been held in Telavi (Georgia), Signari (Georgia), St. Petersburg (Russia), Damascus and Aleppo (Syria), Saaremaa (Estonia).
In 2010, Levan Mosiashvili won the prize at the international exhibition in Fonsorbe, France, for “Best Modernist Abstract Work”. That same year, he received the Honorary Prize of the Haute-Garonne department at the exhibition/competition in Hauterives, a small community near Toulouse where Matisse and Picasso spent their youth.
In 2011, he received the Grand Prix at the 29th International Exhibition/Competition held in the commune of Le Fousséry and a special prize at the 2012 Salon d’Automne in Hauterives: a one-month solo exhibition in the newly built administrative building of the city. Levan Mosiashvili has also received a number of awards, including the Golden Badge of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia and the France – Country of Culture Award, among others.
His works have already been presented at diplomatic receptions in South Africa, Switzerland and the United States. In 2016, the artist’s works were presented at the World Intellectual Property Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the Edoardo Villa Opera House and Museum in Pretoria, South Africa, and during the Georgian Culture Week in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Levan Mosiashvili’s works are in private collections and art galleries around the world (Georgia, France, Russia, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Uruguay, Venezuela, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Chile, Sweden, Norway and China).
His works are exhibited at the Pentagon Headquarters in Washington, DC (USA), the Directorate of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Russia), the Museum of Grapes and Wine of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, as well as in a number of city halls and other government institutions throughout Georgia and France.