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Forthcoming Exhibitions
 

Dates   Online Gallery   2 July - 31 August 2026 Ashkal - the exhibition "Contemporary Echoes" of the latest works by Naveed Akhtar (ASHKAL). "I see my practice as a visual dialogue where history, memory, and contemporary experience interact with one another. For me, painting is not simply about creating images it is about re-examining existing imagery, transforming it, and generating new meanings through it. Through contemporary painting, I explore the emotional and psychological layers that images accumulate over time. I work across different mediums particularly charcoal, acrylic, and mixed media on canvas because each medium carries its own energy and visual language. Charcoal, for me, represents memory and shadow, while acrylic introduces intensity, movement, and disruption. Through the combination of these materials, I create surfaces that feel both raw and controlled at the same time. My recent body of work, “Contemporary Echoes,” is based on transforming the imagery of Western Old Masters into a contemporary context. Rather than directly reproducing classical paintings, I deconstruct, distort, and reconstruct them so they can exist within today’s visual and cultural environment in a new form. In my work, historical imagery appears like memory itself sometimes clear, sometimes fragmented, and sometimes almost erased. This transformation is not only a stylistic process for me, but also a conceptual investigation into how historical images continue to survive within our collective consciousness. Experimentation with the physical surface of the canvas is an essential part of my practice. Layering, scraping, erasing, and rebuilding are central to my process. I want each work to carry evidence of its own making traces of time, unfinished marks, and hidden histories. For me, painting is never a fixed image; it is an evolving space where destruction and creation exist simultaneously. My work also engages with ideas of identity, cultural inheritance, and image consumption. In today’s hyper-visual and digitally saturated world, we constantly exist among reproduced images, and I am interested in exploring how classical visual language can still generate new meanings within a fragmented contemporary reality. Ultimately, my practice is not about preserving the past, but about reawakening it. Through my paintings, I aim to create a bridge between history and contemporary reality a space where familiar imagery can re-emerge in a new emotional and conceptual form." - ASHKAL   2 September - 31 October 2026 Igor Tcholaria - the exhibition 'Golden Foxtrot Of Autumn' of the latest works by Igor Tcholaria. Igor Tcholaria is an artist, a graduate of the Leningrad Art Academy named after Mukhina, an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. He has travelled from the small town of Ochamchiri on the Black Sea coast to the largest galleries in Moscow, London, Brussels, New York, Amsterdam, and Utrecht. Never ceasing to study, he has deeply mastered the entire spectrum of world art, from the old masters, French impressionists and modernists, to modern movements, where the thoughtful message often plays a greater role than the image itself. At the same time, he does not play at postmodernism with its cold parody of old or recent classics. Tcholaria uses immersion in art history to maximize, often spontaneous, expression of emotion and instantaneous vision. This is a special talent. The great masters of bel canto work in a similar way. The ease of singing is achieved through exceptional technique, developed over decades of work. Pavarotti sings like he breathes. Tcholaria paints as if he were breathing. Therefore, looking at his art, the viewer also breathes easier. At the same time, if you take a closer look at the artist’s work, you can identify several main directions. Firstly, it is a portrait and Modigliani comes to the viewer's mind. The elongated necks of beautiful women seem to hint at this. But if you look closely, you simultaneously feel the gentle power of Raphael, the sublime detachment of Russian icons and the clear lines of Georgian coinage, which has its origins in Iranian miniatures. Tcholaria managed to synthesize and melt various ideas and directions in his inner crucible. A new quality of image emerged, instantly recognizable as his unique style. Initially, the artist was fascinated by the circus theme, where the characters of the Italian comedy Del Arte Harlequins and Colombinas also acted. They freely mastered the space of his imagination, allowing the author to fully realize the power of his pictorial potential. He is also fascinated by the ideas of modern circus action in the spirit of the grandiose Cirque Du Soleil, where acrobatics degenerates into a kaleidoscope on a cosmic scale. Russian buffoons with their golden bells of fair fun fit into this theme no less organically. If you think about it, it’s easy to see that the real avant-garde is archaic. Picasso's bull is accurately scaled from a rock painting. The primitive genius echoes across the modern context thousands of years later. In a philosophical sense, Tcholaria's works clearly combine Apollonian and Dionysian motifs. Many portraits and landscapes set a calm, contemplative mood, which, according to Nietzsche’s classification, is the theme of Apollo. The expressive compositions are organized by the carousel vortices of Dionysius. In other words, Tcholaria’s work is unusually artistic. The abundance of masks on his canvases creates an additional theatrical effect. The author acts not only as a painter, but also as a director of a passionate extravaganza, where Dionysius and Apollo are presented in harmonious unity. The surreal motif also gives a unique sound to Tcholaria’s landscapes. Quite traditional in content, they demonstrate a completely fresh and deep look at familiar reality. You can’t help but remember Blok’s line - and again the world will appear strange, shrouded in a coloured fog... Many collectors note the positive energy emanating from his paintings. It is not for nothing that Tcholaria’s works are in the collections of such art connoisseurs as Pavarotti, designer John Galliano, singer Madonna, the outstanding hockey player Mogilny, the most popular French actors Pierre Richard and Gerard Depardieu, and the tamer of the silent lambs Anthony Hopkins. Having made wide turns in European time and space, Tcholaria received an invitation and in 2022 held a large retrospective exhibition at the State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg.   2 November - 31 December 2026 Gemma Billington   2 January - 28 February 2027 Robert Bissell   2 March - 30 April 2027 Nicola Godden   2 May - 30 June 2027 Enzo Archetti   2 July - 31 August 2027 Ala Bashir   2 September - 31 October 2027     2 November - 31 December 2027