'Two Profiles, by Erekle Chinchilakashvili, Mixed Media Painting

This 19.7" x 27.6" tempera, acrylic, and oil pastel painting on paper by Erekle Chinchilakashvili, depicts profiles of two older men wearing hats with their backs to one another in multi-colors, set against a divided wall of turquoise color and blue patterned field. The two men have colorful hats, jackets and shirts with alternating stripes. The predominant colors deep pink/red and turquoise/aqua.

"We, all who live, have
A life that is lived
And another life that is thought,
And the only life we have
It's the one that is divided
In right and wrong."- Fernando Pessoa

Erekle Chinchilakashvili is an emerging Georgian artist currently based in Budapest, where he is working on his PhD in Fine Arts. Erekle is especially passionate about understanding the subconscious side of human nature and using his art as he tries to discover the secrets that lie behind the curtains of everyday life. Growing up in an artist’s family, Erekle has been painting since early childhood. Later he also got interested in History & Theory of Art. Ever since then, he has been trying to analyze the relationship between painting and literature. His main inspiration is to paint surfaces that would act as portals, leading into the meditative world of spirituality. Erekle usually works in oil and acrylic paints, but since he is especially passionate about the freedom in choosing techniques, he often combines traditional methods with various inventive and experimental ways. Apart from painting, he also works in the genre of collage and sculpture. Erekle pays a lot of attention to what has been created before and his main influences come from Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Nicolas de Stael and ancient Georgian wall paintings.