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References abound in the work of Karlo Kacharava, whose perspectives were global long before the 1991 independence of his native Georgia from the Soviet Union. Across paintings and drawings, he splices borderless narratives both fictional and real to picture a world sprawling with connections. Ida Applebroog’s storyboards and Mario Sironi’s shadows; titans of German Expressionism and American Pop Art; 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. Featuring tousled subjects and annotated with Latin and Georgian scripts, his spirited images weave stories at once particular and universal, 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.
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Perversion of Kings, 1993
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Singer in the Wind, 1992
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Anarchist's Dream, 1992
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Clown/Bergman, 1992
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Bread Bread Bread, 1988
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Am Abend Brot, 1992
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Gloria, 1991
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Georgia, 1991
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Woburn is Leaving, 1986
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Karlo Carra, 1992
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Irena Ilona Bus, 1992
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Woman, 1991
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Woman with a Baby, 1988
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Antitheater Creates New Values, 1992
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Abasha House, 1988
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Portrait, 1991
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Karlo Kacharava (1964-1994). Selected solo shows include People and Places, Modern Art, London (2021); Karlo Kacharava Today, Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (2017); Karlo Katscharawa und Deutschland, Goethe-Institut Georgien, Tbilisi, Georgia (2014); Alexandre Chavchavadze House Museum, Tsinandali, Georgia (2014); Für Karlo. Papierarbeiten von Karlo Kacharava, Goethe-Institut Georgien, Tbilisi, Georgia (2012); Für Karlo. Works on Paper by Karlo Kacharava, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2012); My Nights are Better Than Your Days, Mamuka Tsetskhladze Studio, Tbilisi, Georgia (2008); N Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (2006); Charcoal Night in 1994, N Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (2002); Fur Helena, Old Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (1999); My Daughter is a Prison Ballerina, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA (1998); Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia (1997); Karlo Kacharava in Private Collections, Old Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (1997); Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia (1994).
Kacharava's work is included in the collections of Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; He Art Museum, Shunde, China; Kolodzei Art Foundation, Highland Park, NJ, USA; MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă, Bucharest, Romania.
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Karlo Kacharava: Frieze New York 2022
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