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NINO JAPARIDZE
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

AVAILABLE MAY 15, 2012


A new portfolio of four etchings by Nino Japaridze inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's classic novel.

Nino Japaridze, Apartment Number Fifty (plate 2 - detail), 2012 etching hand painted in watercolors

Gallery of Surrealism presents a new suite of etchings by Franco-Georgian contemporary artist Nino Japaridze inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov’s timeless and magical novel, The Master and Margarita.  Each set of four signed and numbered etchings on Arches paper is accompanied by one signed and numbered colophon sheet and housed in a sumptuous purple fabric covered portfolio case with gold stamping and gold lace ribbon tie.  The etchings have been published in a limited edition of 25 with Arabic numerals printed in black and a deluxe edition of XXV with Roman numerals.  Each impression in the deluxe edition has been elaborately hand painted by the artist in watercolors.


One of the finest literary works of the twentieth century, Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita was suppressed and censored during its writer’s lifetime by the Stalinist government it so deftly satirizes.  Bulgakov began writing the novel in 1928.  He burned the first manuscript in 1930, despondent over a writer’s prospects in the Soviet Union, before resuming work in 1931.  Bulgakov continued further drafts and revisions until his death in 1940.  Censored and   incomplete versions circulated in the Soviet Union underground for years until the first complete version was finally published in 1973.


The Master and Margarita is a political satire squarely aimed at the totalitarian regime of the Stalin period.  Deeply humorous and profoundly allegorical, this surrealist masterpiece deals with a variety of philosophical themes including good versus evil, love, religion, and  redemption.  The story concerns a four day visit by the Devil and his retinue to Moscow and the fantastic and hilarious havoc that ensues.  A parallel plot involves an unconventional telling of the meeting and relationship between Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ.


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