LUKA CHACHXIANI

For Luka Chachxiani, painting remains the closest conduit to childhood, a state of being in which authenticity is unguarded and play is paramount.

It is this essential quality that has compelled the artist to continue, as the act of painting is not ancillary to life, but fundamental to it. Chachxiani has deliberately remained outside academic or formal artistic training. Painting has always been experienced as something deeply intimate, resistant to instruction, and vulnerable to external interference. The absence of institutional frameworks preserves a private space in which the work can emerge unmediated.

Working primarily with pastel, charcoal, and pencil, Chachxiani’s practice is entirely intuitive. The process unfolds through erasure, repetition, and play, an approach akin to a child’s exploration, allowing the artist to momentarily dissolve the self. In doing so, the work becomes a site of perception, revealing movement and transformation beyond material form, expressed through endlessly shifting configurations.

The act of creation is never oriented toward the finished artwork as an object, but toward observation: seeing, revisiting, and re-encountering what arises. There is no predetermined concept. Any fixed idea is understood as a constraint that compromises the work’s natural autonomy. Instead, music, intuition, and joy function as the sole guides, allowing the image to come into being on its own terms.