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The two-artist exhibition: "The Day I Never Met You" at Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin brings together landscapes in spectacular colour and pinpoint detail. The explosive colour and dramatic brushwork of Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili and the painstaking detail and anti-natural black and white of British artist Alexander Adams form a startling complementary pairing for the first time at the gallery. Bringing together two artists who have never had a chance to meet in person but over the years have continued to communicate through their work.

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Installation

Exhibited Works

ALEXANDER ADAMS

Snowy Landscape with Ruined Church 25.5.2014, 2014
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 cm | 7 x 9 1/2 in

ALEXANDER ADAMS

Standing Man by Streetlamp Version A, 2021
Oil on canvas board
25,5 x 20,5 cm | 10 x 8 in

ALEXANDER ADAMS

Firs, Åre (version B), 2016-2017
Oil on canvas board
13 x 18 cm | 5 x 7 in

NATELA IANKOSHVILI

David, 1981
Oil on canvas
110 x 75 cm | 43 1/3 x 29 1/2 in

NATELA IANKOSHVILI

Opiza, 1968
Oil on canvas
85 x 100 cm | 33 1/2 x 39 1/3 in

NATELA IANKOSHVILI

Khevsureti Landscape, 1984
Oil on canvas
100 x 110 cm | 39 1/3 x 43 1/3 in

About the artists

Natela Iankoshvili

NATELA IANKOSHVILI

Born in 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia
Passed in 2007 in Tbilisi, Georgia

Iankoshvili studied at the Art Academy in Tbilisi. She showcased an early departure from the grim representation of idealized scenes of Communist reality towards a more vibrant, individualistic painterly style. Themes such as motherhood and femininity replaced the pseudo-ethnographic sexless depictions of female workers of the 1950s and 1960s. Her travels cemented in her work a desire to freely depict imagery usually unseen to the typically isolated Soviet Union where to exist as an artist was to conform to societies stringent masculine norms.