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As Pablo Casals once did before, Khatia Buniatishvili places the human being at the centre of her art. The fundamental values handed down from the Enlightenment are not up for discussion.

Were there a fire and a choice to be made between child and painting, she would not hesitate for a second. Yet, once she had pulled the child from the blaze, she would take it to the Museum of Fine Arts so that it might become a painter.

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No need to save “the fire” (as Cocteau replied) because it already burns her eyes, rages in her fingers and warms her heart.

    Khatia, born in Batumi, Georgia, by the Black Sea, on the longest day of , knows the price of freedom and independence, and understands the energy needed to stand tall in life.

The example set by her parents did not go unheeded. During the chaotic period her country went through, Khatia’s parents had to display great resourcefulness to keep poverty at bay. Her mother, who