The nomad Tonka gallery presents the Russian-Georgian couple of young artists Pasternak-Totibadze. Alexandra Pasternak is the great-granddaughter of the writer Boris Pasternak, while Anton Totibadze comes from the family of famous Georgian realist painters. Despite their academic training in painting, they are driven by the idea of beauty and freedom rather than by the classical school or an unambiguous vision of art.

What unites these young artists is undoubtedly a shared vision, and disobedience to artistic hierarchies. Anton Totibadze's still-lifes are scenes of nihilism and mockery: a seagull and its food pictured against the sea, weightless oranges, or the reflections of a glass of beer next to an empty plate. 

Anton's neatness is also inherent to Alexandra Pasternak's work, but hers are landscapes painted from life. Her perspectives, depicting mountain ranges with clear skies and green valleys dotted with occasional sparse Cubist dwellings, evoke associations with tamed nature. Like in the works of her companion, these fragments of orderliness refer to a playful universe, an imaginary world far removed from rationality.

For their first exhibition in Paris, Anton Totibadze and Alexandra Pasternak reproduced their impressions of Georgia, which they explored during the summer, moving from the mountain ranges to the Black Sea coastline and to the arid regions with vineyards. Views captured from the road are revealed in panoramic shots, and the nature, as depicted by Alexandra Pasternak and Anton Totibadze, is exalted: simple, yet fascinating, and neatly carved.

Alexandra Pasternak and Anton Totibadze live and work between Moscow and Tbilisi; this is their first exhibition in Paris. They will be present at the opening of the exhibition to talk about their work and to invite their audience to the opening of the Tonka Gallery.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and silver prints made by Anton Totibadze on the roads of Georgia and printed manually in Paris for the exhibition.