IGOR TCHOLARIA
Igor Tcholaria was born in 1959 in the small town of Ochamchiri on the coast of the Black Sea in Abkhazia, Georgia. After applying to the Art College of Sukhumi, he spent the next three years there studying under the guidance of artist Givi Guergaya. Tcholaria became one of the first in the Soviet Union who earned a living by painting portraits in the street. During Gorbachev’s Perestroika, Tcholaria was noticed by the owner of Cenacolo gallery in Piacenza, the start of Tcholaria’s venture abroad. In Italy he had his first solo exhibition, soon followed by shows in Greece, Belgium and Netherlands, along with auctions and art fairs. Among other commissions, he was asked to paint two four-meter long murals for famous ocean liner, the Queen Mary II. In 2009 he won the gold medal for his aerographics on the latest Volvo C70, exhibited at the Millionaire’s Fair in Moscow. Igor Tcholaria’s paintings can be found in many well-known collections around the world, including those of Galliano and Pavarotti, as well as many international art collectors. His paintings also decorate the entrance hall of the May Fair Hotel in London.
Igor Tcholaria’s finds beauty in the everyday, placing porcelainskinned women within heavily patterned backgrounds, a Modilgliani-esque take on iconography. He plays around with contrasts of volume, changing his mind between two and three dimensional effects, loud and soft colours. Sooty eyes peer from
under flattened hats, pale skirts and pantaloons billow out around them. The paintings might be decadent costume designs for an art nouveau burlesque. Those images are reminiscent of childhood storybook worlds where bright little birds hide in the branches. They are tapestries
of circus performers and harlequins, wooden horses and puppet shows, illustrations from the backs of playing cards. Though chaotic in appearance, the works are precisely arranged. Nothing is there by accident; every colour is given feeling with specific texture and by its proximity to other colours. Frustrations with the randomness of events or unpredictability of time are dispersed by order. The push and pull of the colours create a soothing optical illusion- we drift in and back out of these imaginariums, stirred awake by more than a nod to those
old masters who first inspired them.
Caroline Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
General On The Horse Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Caroline Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Flowers Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Life Is A Theatre Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Circus Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm
Dancer With A Flower Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2022
A Night In Paris Oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm, 2015
Dance Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm 2024
The Blue Parrot Oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm
Dance Of Equilibrium Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
The Nude Oil on canvas, 141 x 200 cm
Look At Me Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Girl With A Parrot Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm
Yellow Parrot Oil on canvas 70 x 50 cm 2021
The Ballerina's Dream Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2023
Natalia Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2022
Maria Oil on canvas 90 x 72 cm 2020
Elena Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm 2022
Margaret Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2024
General With The Umbrella Oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm 2005
My Lips Are Yours Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, 2020
Petrushka Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, 2021
Hello, Alien Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, 2021
A Dream Flower And It’s Dreams Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm 2024
Landscape Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2024
Touch Of My Dreams Acrylic on canvas 100 x 120 cm 2017
My Lovely Dreams Oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm 2020
Stranger In The Night Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm 2020
My Name is Nick Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm 2020
Dancers in the Clouds Oil on canvas 90 x 80 cm 2020
We Are The Dancer Acrylic and oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm 2020
They want me Acrylic on canvas, 89 x 116 cm, 2017
Saint Tropez Mixed media, acrylic and oil on canvas 115 x 89 cm 2018
First Race Through The Space Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2021
Blue Wind Oil on canvas 90 x 110 cm 2021
Love Race On The Red Horse Oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm 2020
Waves Of Love Oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm 2020
Tango Mango Oil and acrylic on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, 2018
Sense Of Memory Oil and acrylic on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, 2018
Dance of a Cat Oil and acrylic on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, 2018
Behind my Back Oil and acrylic on canvas 90 x 70 cm 2018
Alexandra Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm
Behind The Scenes 2 Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
Portrait 1 Oil on canvas 45 x 35 cm
Portrait 2 Oil on canvas 45 x 35 cm
Portrait 3 Oil on canvas 45 x 35 cm
Behind The Scenes 1 Oil on canvas 90 x 80 cm
Portrait 4 Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
Untitled 1 Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm
Portrait 5 Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Portrait 6 Oil on canvas 90 x 80 cm
Portrait 7 Oil on canvas 90 x 80 cm
Portrait 8 Oil on canvas 55 x 45 cm
Mary Oil on canvas 70 x 50 cm
Dubrovnik 1 Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2022
Dubrovnik 2 Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2022
Dubrovnik 3 Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2022
Dubrovnik 4 Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2022
Monica Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm
Anna Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Space Dream Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
Space Freedom Oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm
Flora From Rotterdam Oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm
Lidia Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm
Caroline Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
Sofie Oil on canvas 90 x 71 cm
Two Faces Oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm
Lolita Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm
Kathy Oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm
Gloria Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm
Girl Of My Dreams Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm
General On The Horse Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
Ballerina Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
Girl With The Parrot Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm
Theatre Oil on canvas 95 x 115 cm
The White Bird Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm
Divertissement Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm
The Wisdom Itself Oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm
Space Melody Oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm
The Fight Of The Lovers Oil on canvas 120 x 200 cm
The Country Life Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Mon Ami Oil on canvas 100 x 90 cm
Red Guitar Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm
From The Darkness Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
Musician Oil on canvas 80 x 90 cm
The Bird Lady Oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm
Don Carlos Oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm
The Horse Alien Oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm
Love Story Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm
Desire Oil on canvas 100 x 90 cm
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