‘Understanding a painting often takes time. Artists, perhaps for this reason, prefer to stay silent when seeing a new work, or an exchange of opinions ends with only a few comments (I mean my artist friends).

Oto, too, at first looked at the picture silently. I think he was inwardly measuring it against the standards of artists. But then, after a while—after one or two days, or even a week—he would start talking (which was his job, and he was very good at it).There have been instances where he viewed a painting from an angle I had never considered. To be more precise, he often saw the reverse side of things, which, perhaps, everything has. Many times, this perspective has made me happy.

This exhibition is dedicated to Oto Bagrationi.’

Vakho Bugadze