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Karlo Kacharava
Harlequin in a Landscape
ca. 1985

$600

£454.42

€530.79

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About the Item

Karlo Kacharava (1964-1994). Harlequin in a Landscape, ca. 1985. Enamel paint and marker on gloss paper, sheet measures 19.5 x 15.25 inches. Signed lower left. Unframed. Within the span of his short artistic career, Kacharava produced over five thousand drawings, journals, and painted canvases. Seldom separating them from his writing, his paintings are frequently concerned with the pictorial potential of the written word. The textual iconography he employs switches between Georgian and Latin script, becoming filled with allusions to Western European scholarship. References abound in Kachavara’s work generally, reflecting his worldly perspectives long before the 1991 independence of his native Georgia from the Soviet Union. While his visual palate is heavily influenced by pre-war German painting, particularly the legacies of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, as well as Neo Expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kachavara’s work contains sprawling connections to art, theory and literature. From Ida Applebroog’s storyboards and Mario Sironi’s shadows to American Pop Art and the theories of Mikhail Bakunin; the poetry of Theodor Däubler; the novels of Patrick Modiano; the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder; the lyrics of Nick Cave: each citation becomes a vehicle and protagonist in Kacharava’s intricate network, which ambivalently stakes Tbilisi as a dislocated cultural nexus. His spirited images weave stories that are at once particular and universal, and which - beneath their complex layers of metaphorical footnotes and annotations - speak of anarchy, longing, and hope. A cult figure in Germany and throughout the Caucasus, Karlo Kacharava (b. 1964, Samtredia – d. 1994, Tbilisi) was a fixture of Georgian artistic and intellectual circles before his untimely death from a sudden brain aneurysm at the age of thirty. From 1981 to 1986, he studied art history at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, afterwards joining the Chubinashvili Institute of the History of Georgian Art as a researcher. Alongside and between his visual art and activities with Tbilisi’s Tenth Floor Group, he produced numerous works of poetry and critical theory. In 1990, he left the USSR for the first time, relocating briefly to Cologne. During his lifetime, Kacharava participated in up to 40 exhibitions. In 1997, he was posthumously awarded the Giorgi Chubinashvili State Prize for his contribution to Georgian art history. In 2017, a major retrospective was organised by Irena Popiashvili at the Georgian Nation- al Museum. Kacharava’s works are held in collections including the Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi; He Art Museum, Shunde; Kolodzei Art Foundation, Highland Park; MARe/ Muzeul de Arta Recenta, Bucharest; The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas and Tate, London. In December 2023, S.M.A.K Ghent mounted the first museum exhibition of Kacharava’s work outside of Georgia. Karlo Kacharava Born in Samtredia, Georgia, 1964 Died in Tbilisi, Georgia, 1994 Selected Solo Exhibitions 2025 Sometimes Ballerina, Sometimes Priest, in Reality, a Murderer curated by Irena Popiashvili, Modern Art, London LC Queisser Cologne, Germany 2023 Sentimental Traveller S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium 2021 People and Places Modern Art, London 2017 Karlo Kacharava Today Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 2014 Karlo Katscharawa und Deutschland Goethe-Institut Georgien, Tbilisi, Georgia Alexandre Chavchavadze House Museum Tsinandali, Georgia 2012 Für Karlo. Papierarbeiten von Karlo Kacharava Goethe-Institut Georgien, Tbilisi, Georgia Fur Karlo. Works on Paper by Karlo Kacharava Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2008 My Nights are Better Than Your Days Mamuka Tsetskhladze Studio, Tbilisi, Georgia 2002 Charcoal Night in 1994 N Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 1999 Fur Helena Old Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 1998 My Daughter is a Prison Ballerina Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1997 Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Literature Tbilisi, Georgia Karlo Kacharava in Private Collections Old Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 1994 Georgian National Museum Tbilisi, Georgia Selected Group Exhibitions 2023 Moving in Super Super Markt, Berlin, Germany 2022 XX-XXI centuries Georgian art from private collections Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 2017 State of Play: Art in Georgia in 1985-1999 Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; travelling to: Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan (2018) Sputterances Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA 2016 Green Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 2014 HOTEL ORIENT / HAUS DER KÜNSTLER Georgian State Museum of Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia 2012 Reframing the 80s: Georgian Art at the End of the 80s and the Beginning of the 90s Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 2011 Artisterium IV: Free Fall Georgian State Museum of Theater, Music, Film and Choreography, Tbilisi, Georgia 2004 Opposites Suite 106 Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1996 Georgia to Georgia Art With an Attitude Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA 1990 Galerie Françoise Friedrich Cologne, Germany 1980 At the Threshold of Maturity Tbilisi, Georgia Selected Collections Georgian National Museum Tbilisi, Georgia He Art Museum Foshan, Guangdong, China Kolodzei Art Foundation Highland Park, NJ, USA MARe Museum Bucharest, Romania Tate London

Creator:
Karlo Kacharava (1964 - 1994, Russian)
Creation Year:
ca. 1985
Dimensions:
Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 12.75 in (32.39 cm)
Medium:
Enamel,Paper
Movement & Style:
Neo-Expressionist
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Wilton Manors, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU245217484772

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Karlo Kacharava
Harlequin in a Landscape
ca. 1985