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Chinese art

Tbilisi Art Center (TAC) is a non-for-profit organisation specialising in contemporary Chinese art.

Our network encompasses East and Central Asia, the Caucasus and Europe - all the countries of the ancient Silk Road. Throughout this region aim is to make cross-border connections, to strengthen the silken threads between museums, galleries, public foundations and private collections. Our base in Georgia means that we are perfectly placed, geographically and culturally, to serve as a bridge between Chinese artists and western collectors.

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GENEVA VALENTINI

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Tbilisi Art Center is a source and a service for art collectors across the world. We have a unique understanding of the contemporary Chinese art market, and unparalleled access to artists’ studios and galleries within China. We are known and trusted - and that means that we are able to provide up-to-date information about local and global trends, and are always the first to know about the best acquisition opportunities.

The TAC has helped grow collections in numerous locations.

The map below shows the some of the works that we have sourced or curated for clients, along with the private collections and public institutions where they are now to be found.

Staging
exhibitions

TAC works with leading international curators to create exhbitions of contemporary Chinese art in Silk Road countries, and so to raise the profile of the best artists working in China today. This involves placing works from the collections of our clients, bringing both the artists and the collections to the attention of the art world in which TAC has been involved.
We have staged monographic exhibitions in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia, among other places. Here below are details of some of the events in which TAC has been involved.
[01]
Enlightening Times
At the Duddell’s Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China, Galerie, Paris, 2015.

Curated by Jerôme Sans

Sans, co-founder of Palais de Tokyo and former Director of Beijing’s UCCA, has selected key works by Wang Guangle (1976) and Li Shurui (1981). ‘Enlightening Times’ aimed to initiate a dialogue between two major figures from China’s contemporary art scene, who explore ever-changing states of light and colour in different ways.

Known for her large-format compositions that investigate the intimate relationship between the abstract concepts of light and space, Li Shurui’s ‘Lights’ series explored the physical and metaphysical elements of different light spectrums. The works of Wang Guangle sought to capture the passage of light varying over time and space. This was echoed in his series ‘Untitled’ in which the artist applies paint from the far edges of the canvas towards the centre. The resulting effect was an illusion of depth and the effect of an illuminated rectangle or void.



[02]
Constellation
At the Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2017.

Curated by Ami Barak, exhibition included 40 works by 20 artists from the John Dodelande's and his partners Collections.

Curated by Ami Barak, Exhibition Constellation brings together 22 artists of different generations stemming back to Ai Weiwei who, following his return to China in the mid-1990s, has charted a path, defined by its conceptual rigor and, at times, an either explicit or more latent critique of both the state and the market. The selected artists in the exhibition range from Ai to a younger generation of artists, most of whose works express both the artists' own issues and the complex cultural and social concerns of the country. In this regard, their practices and strategies of artistic concept have been broadly based, each taking their own distinct paths of development.



[03]
Constellation Baku
At the Heydar Haliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2017.

Curated by Ami Barak, exhibition included 40 works by 20 artists from the John Dodelande’s and his partners Collections.

Contemporary art in China has broken the stalemate 25 years ago thanks to the opening of the regime to the capitalist market system. The artistic avant-garde had the opportunity to openly manifest and to position itself towards more freedom and think and act with the present time. There are similarities and interesting parallels with the situation of the art in the Caucasus region but also valuable cultural differences. That is why an exhibition in such a context is a major symbolic event, re-establishing ancient connections between China and Caucasus. These territories were linked by the world’s oldest overland trade route, the Silk Road, formally established during the Han Dynasty, which linked China and the Middle East across the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus…



[04]
Racing the galaxy
At the Palace of Peace, Nur-Sultan, Kazakstan, 2019.

Curated by Dina Baitassova and Jerôme Sans

To mark the Year of Youth in Kazakhstan, 40 Kazakh and foreign artists (aged between 18-35) from 15 countries, including Argentina, China, Cuba, France, Korea, Italy, Madagascar, Turkey and the United States, presented their works. Among them one of the best works from Moon series by Wang Yuyang. It was held at the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation and Palace of Independence. Its curators are Dina Baitassova (Art Advisory Founder of Artios) and Jérôme Sans (French art critic and director of contemporary art institutions).

The Astana Art Show 2019 organisers were Artios Art Advisory and the city of Akimat, the Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Kazakh National Museum and the Ruhani Zhangyru (Modernisation of Kazakhstan’s Identity) Programme Office.



[05]
Singularity
At the Heydar Haliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2015.

Wang Yuyang, Singularity, an exhibition curated by Emin Mamadov.

The exhibition focused on the artists mixed media work and sculpture of the moon. In his speech, collector John Dodelande said that the uniqueness of Wang Yuyang’s works lies in the combination of science and art. The exhibition also featured samples of sculptures of the artist from the series “Electricity”, “Nameless-1” as well as works from the series “The Moon”. At the opening, the art spoke of his work “Singularity”, exhibited in the foyer of the Center. The diameter of the work presented at the exhibition was four meters, composed of 300 stepping motors and 3000 LED lamps.



About

John Dodelande Portrait
John Dodelande
[Founder]
John Dodelande, the co-founder of LITO Editions, is an esteemed entrepreneur and an influential collector of contemporary Chinese art, with a career spanning over a decade in the art world. His journey began with a deep fascination for China’s rich visual culture and its rapid modernization, leading him to become an art advisor and collector of works by Chinese artists, particularly those from the post-Mao generation. These artists, who came into prominence in the 1980s and beyond, have intricately explored the human impacts of China’s swift economic growth and cultural shifts through various mediums, including traditional methods like ink and oils, as well as conceptual art and new media.
In 2021, Dodelande’s expertise in the field was further recognized through his collaboration with Adrian Cheng, the founder of the K11 Art Foundation in Hong Kong, on the publication “Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection.” This significant work highlights his deep engagement with Chinese contemporary art. His contributions to the art and technology sector were acknowledged the same year when he was featured in Apollo’s 40 under 40 Art and Tech edition, marking him as one of the sector’s leading voices.

LITO MASTERS
& lito editions

Driven by a passion to enhance access to global cultural heritage, Dodelande co-founded LITO in 2022 alongside an engineer from one of the world’s leading tech companies. LITO, celebrated by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies globally, stands at the intersection of art and technology. Operating from the LITO Technology Lab in Bregenz, Austria, this printmaking company and art publisher commissions contemporary artists to conceive original artworks, which are then meticulously transformed into limited editions using LITO’s unique and patented technology. This ensures the creation of multiples with unparalleled precision and quality.
LITO Editions has already partnered with renowned artists such as Douglas Gordon, Erwin Wurm, Wang Guangle, Jia Aili, Alexandre Arrechea, Collin Sekajugo, and Peter Halley, producing distinctive and sought-after editions. Moreover, through its conservation arm, LITO Masters, the company extends its innovative approach to leading museums and institutions worldwide, offering new tools for research and conservation.
VISIT LITO MASTERS
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Chinese art:
The impossible
collection

Chinese art: The Ultimate collection

THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION

The most highly anticipated volume in Assouline’s exclusive Ultimate series, Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection spotlights 100 works of contemporary art that reveal the social, political, and cultural evolution of a nation on the rise.
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