Black light a concise introduction to the beloved modernist and fabled painterGeorgias most famous artist Niko Pirosmani 18621918 is a fabled figure in the story of early modernism. The painter selftaught and penniless during his lifetime was heralded posthumously for his naive style. Pirosmanis paintings are simpleblunt colorful depictions of rustic scenes gleaming against black canvas backgrounds extraordinary icons of glowing intensity.This exhibition catalog showcases around 50 rarely seen Pirosmani masterpieces alongside a historical text on the artist written in 1926 by Kirill Zdanevich who discovered Pirosmani a fictional but historically accurate essay discussing Tbilisi as the Paris of Pirosmanis age by the Danish art historian and writer Kaspar Thormod an interview with the Georgian art historian Nana Kipiani and her artist husband Levan Chogoshvili by Swiss curator Daniel Baumann and reflections on the artist by contemporary artists Thea Djordjadze Mamma Andersson and Tal R.