PARMEN DAUSHVILI

Parmen Daushvili originally obtained a degree in engineering and has arrived to his painting practice through a series of incidents where reality has sometimes been stranger than fiction. His journey to art has taken the route through bureaucratic mishaps and institutional fallacies in the hands of the United Kingdom, his host country. One could claim that Parmen Daushvili is an accidental artist as a result. Being self-taught and foregoing the pantheon of art history, his paintings are survivors of their own making. Many of his works are over- painted, scraped, sanded, re-painted and tranformed. The palette is somber and measured, evoking at times mid 20th century modern British and American masters such as Milton Avery, LS Lowry and David Hockney. He is economical with his brushwork and the resulting paintings radiate of longing; a sense of otherness and displacement; cutting dry humour and hopefulness.

Courtesy Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad/Venezia.