ZAZA TUSCHMALISCHVILI

1960 born in Gori (Georgia)
1971-1979 Art schools in Gori and Zchinwali, Georgia
1979-1982 Military service at St. Petersburg
1982-1988 Academy of Art at Tblissi, Georgia / Specialization in fresco-restoration

EXHIBITIONS:

1989-1991 Exhibitions in Tblissi, Moscow
1992-2011 One Man Exhibitions in Berlin, Baden-Baden (Art of Georgia)
Georgian Cultural Exhibition in Gothenburg, Zurich, Kronberg
Art Fairs, One Man Presentation in Brussels, Hamburg, Frankfurt Strasbourg, Geneva, Marbella, Paris, Rotterdam, Gent, Dublin, Salzburg, London

DOCUMENTARIES AND AWARDS

1995 "Russians of Berlin" Film documentation from the Academy of Art Berlin
1997 Exhibition Berlin- Alexanderplatz, Award from the New Society of Art
2001-2006 Documentation "Georgische (Ein)Sichten 1994-1999"
Publication "Art Profil" Issue 3 2000, Issue 2 2001, Issue 5 2003 Issue 1 2005
2006 "Georgian Impression - The painter Zaza Tuschmalischvili" movie by Zaza Buadze (30 min)

His paintings are in the collection of DaimlerChrysler, Spielbank Berlin and in private collections in Germany, Belgium, France, GUS, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, USA.

Fantasy - New Pictures by Zaza Tuschmalischvili
The ingenious brilliant Dali whose talent was in the beginning vigorously disputed in the art world, ascertained that his paintings do not have to be explained, but that is would suffice to look at them through the eyes of children or the unspoilt eyes of the fishermen of his village.
Just like this one should look at Zaza Tuschmalischvili´s pictures. No knowledge of art history is required. One does not have to know a lot about the background, not even about the education of this painter, who was born 40 years ago in Georgia and has been living in Berlin for the last 10 years. All his oeuvres, as manifold as they are in their motives, their technique and arrangement speak directly to our senses. Just as with Dali they fascinate us and entice us into the land of fantasy and dream, into regions full of memories, longings and even angst.

Zaza Tuschmalischvili´s art cannot be categorized as surrealistic, neither expressionistic, cubistic or naïve. His art has elements of all of these in a nearly unfathomable diversity which lends it uniqueness. Seemingly his reservoir of ideas is inexhaustible but unified by recurring symbols, like the fish, the angel or the Taurus.
Zaza Tuschmalischvili´s pictures emanate a sentiment of warmth, light and brightness. And even in pictures in which the cool blue colour dominates windows open up to the light of a sunny day. It is the figuratively perceived colour spots in his cubistic-like collages which let you think of the lightness and warmth of Mediterranean countries to whose culture his Georgia home country belongs.
All of his pictures including the latest show an almost limitless desire to shape. His joy in the artistic experiment does not least show in his colour collages in which he achieves unexpected effects through layers on layers of paint. In his "fantasy" Z. Tuschmalischvili creates illusions through which the observer's own imagination will be stimulated. Possibly the concept of "fantasy " is the most fitting one for the extraordinary talent of a painter who will be understood by all.
Brigitta Schrade 2001


"BETWEEN ORIENT AND OCCIDENT"
New works of Georgian artist Zaza Tuschmalischvili

Art of Georgia is a very special institution..., the director Annilie Hillmer has a through her east-west contact to the black see country grown to appreciate and value its qualities.
The Georgian artist Zaza Tuschmalischvili who she sponsors, is one of the most famous contemporary painters from Georgia in Western Europe today. Thanks to the successful support of his glariest his works have been exhibited at big art fairs in Paris, Geneva, Brussels and Strasburg.
Excerpt from ArtProfil (a German Art magazine), issue 5/2003