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
My Lovely Dreams
Oil on canvas
80 x 80 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
2020
Acrylic and oil on canvas
90 x 70 cm
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
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 acrylicon 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
O
90
Portrait 4
il on canvas
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
Music Of Desire
Bronze, edition 5 of 12 67 x 54 x 23 cm
Obsession
Bronze, edition of 24
75 x 36 x 27.5 cm
The Music Flies
Bronze, white patina, Edition 3 of 30
40 x 16 x 16 cm
The General Bronze, edition of 30 70 x 63 x 45 cm
Monica Oil on canvas
80 x 70 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
Oil on canvas
95 x 115 cm
Theatre
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
Selected Exhibitions
New York Galerie Mourlot
Netherlands Veghel Bienalle
Вelgium, Knokke, Animamix Gallery, personal exhibition
Holland Van Loon Galleries
Netherlands Veghel Bienalle
Creutzberg I Van Dun Gallery, Solo Exposition, Osterwijk, Holland
Art Fair Rosmalen, Holland
Winter group show. Hay Hill Gallery, London
Personal exhibition. Goers Gallery of Fine Arts, Luxemburg
Hay Hill Gallery, Solo Exposition, London
Creutzberg I Van Dun Gallery, Solo Exposition, Osterwijk, Holland
Hay Hill Gallery, Solo Exposition, London
Creutzberg I Van Dun Gallery, Solo Exposition, Osterwijk, Holland
Colourful Russian Music, World Museum, Rotterdam, the Nederlands
Gallery Mark Peet Visser. s- Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Lineart, Gent, Belgium
Usupov Palace, Tcholaria Gallery, Moscow
Art and Antiques Fair. 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Reflection of love, Natasha-Li Gallery. Helsinki, Finland
Art Utrecht. Utrecht, The Netherlands
Realisme'10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art and Antiques Fair, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Open art Art Fair, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Life as a Dream, Hay Hill Gallery, London
Amsterdam Art Fair, The Netherlands
Primavera Art Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Oriel Gallery with Sokol Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
Moscow Art Fair, Moscow, Russia