Leonid Tskhe

    Embraces
    Las Meninas
    The Risk-taker
    Ivory Black
    Rehearsals
    The Boy and the Ball of Thread
    NeoPetersburg  
    Sever-7
   
Palaces
    Performative Drawing


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© Leonid Tskhe 2025   
curated by Andy Shab
design consulting: Maria Baturina
All images courtesy of the artist and OVCHARENKO gallery.

2024 → Embraces



One may say that the recent works are about living through terrible times, about violence and fear of losing what you love, the vulnerability and fragility of the world, yearning and tragedy, which has scattered everyone, and, therefore, about imaginary embraces. Everything is created out of some communication or lack of it. Nothing is painted here from life. It is just a blind movement, by touch. Once I finished, I realised that there are embraces here.



From the cycle Embraces. 2024. Oil on canvas. 250 × 200 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2023. Oil on canvas. 195 × 145 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2023. Acrylic on canvas. 180 × 150 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2023. Oil on canvas. 270 × 180 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2023. Oil on canvas. 264 × 202 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2023. Oil on canvas. 180 × 150 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2023. Oil on canvas. 270 × 180 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2024. Oil on canvas. 230 × 150 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2024. Oil on canvas. 250 × 200 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2023. Oil on canvas. 235 × 195 cm
Banana Rider. From the cycle Embraces. 2024. Oil on canvas. 204 × 205 cm
From the cycle Embraces. 2023. Oil on canvas. 180 × 150 cm