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In addition to those images by Newton, this new group exhibition features 13 photographers and their interpretations of Hollywood, presented as usual in larger groups of works. The main exhibition space is dedicated to the medium of film and the Hollywood system. It features portraits of actors from Hollywood’s early years by Ruth Harriet Louise and George Hoyningen-Huene, as well as later film stills and on-set photographs by Steve Schapiro and several Magnum photographers, including Eve Arnold and Inge Morath, who documented the 1960 production of the John Huston film, Misfits.

Larry Sultan Sharon Wild, 2001, from the series „The Valley“ ® The Estate of Larry Sultan, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

Helmut Newton Elizabeth Taylor, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles 1985 © Helmut Newton Foundation

Ruth Harriet Louise Joan Crawford for the film “Our Dancing Daughters”, Hollywood 1928 © Ruth Harriet Louise, courtesy Sammlung Kothenschulte

George Hoyningen-Huene Judy Garland, Hollywood 1945 © George Hoyningen-Huene Estate Archives

The 2022 year will stay in our memory as a cruel and bloody year, a year of civil and human tragedy. Now, when the whole world is in agony when people are dying, and losing their homes, and families we all can’t stay aside. As we know, artists are very sensitive people and we want to take a chance for them to say what they are thinking about, and what they are feeling, no matter what.
Since today HAZEGALLERY resumes representation of photographers and visual artists from Ukraine, Russia, and CIS countries. We came to this decision because we are sure that the art is the multicultural language of the piece and we want to tell it to everyone. We know many talented photographers and artists, who have to be silent in their countries because of politics.
Every month our gallery will show an exhibition (a week or two) by one contemporary painter or photographer for CIS countries. Then we will work as a showroom and our visitors will have the possibility to see all our authors.
We hope this position will help our viewers to understand how many brilliant and unique authors live in Ukraine, Russia, and over CIS countries, to understand their pacific and strong position, even if they are keeping silent because of the circumstances.

From the very opening, Purplehaze magazine was a space of freedom, where artists, photographers, and curators have opportunities for self-expression. All these years our team has been trying to not intervene in the author’s projects and texts. Because the first of our rules is to be impartial. Before today, we were focused on art and fashion, but now we want to a little bit correct our main themes and we will start work primarily with contemporary art and photography.
Also, we will change the frequency of issuance of print magazines. The next issue will be printed in December 2022 and from now it will be the almanac of the best projects and texts of the year. It will have two parts: contemporary art and photography. We choose this various because we want to make a review of the year, and summarise the changes in art life, society, and the global.
In 2022, being tolerant of people, and foreign cultures became a really difficult task because we all can’t think about politics, society, ecology, and other global problems. We are sure that art is the way to improve our society, to make us better: clever, softer, more tolerant. And we want to allow painters, photographers, and writers from the whole world to be heard and involved in the global art society.

ARTIST: LASHA TCHRELASHVILI
CURATED BY: IRINA RUSINOVICH
LOCATION: Bulowstrasse 11, 10789, Berlin
EXHIBITION DURATION: 02.06.2022 – 18.06.2022
VERNISSAGE: 02.06.2022 AT 7PM

Pictorial traditions in art have a very deep and long history. Since the Middle Ages and Renaissance artists have been trying to find their unique and individual way, form of utterance. Painters used color as a medium and expression method, escaping more and more new facets of interpretations. In the Symbolism tradition, artists used color as a code, where each color had its own meaning. And today many painters are working with color very carefully and attentively, using colors as sights and some sort of visual message.

In the TRANSFORMATION project Lasha Tchrelashvili is reflecting about the inner force that all of us have inside. Today, when the whole world is in a permanent crisis, we have many problems: social, political and ecological. Everyday we have to fight with circumstances and with ourselves, make moral choices day by day. We should be strong to stay human, to not go insane.   

Artist uses color as an image language, telling for viewers the story of his life through sharp abstract images. His artworks are abstractive and very expressive. When we look closely, we see that all forms on canvas look like they are in movement, like in second they will be in another place, in another world.

Visitors of the exhibition with autor go on a journey through the years, through the important events of the artist’s life. From canvas to canvas we see the history of Lasha’s maturity, the process of tempering his character. 

LASHA TCHRELASHVILI 

Painting process is a kind of a thinking process for me. Sometimes you get distracted, other times you’re fully invested. It’s a dynamic process both emotionally and conceptually. My paintings are products of this thinking process which I then observe. Through these observations I analyze my internal, spiritual state and my position in relation to the universe. My intention is not to contain the dialogue within my own world, therefore I open up the conversation with a question. I title my paintings as a question in order to spark the desire for exploration within the viewers themselves. 

The main accent of my paintings is a state of transcendence. In this state of liminality the relationship between familiar and unfamiliar takes you through a mysterious experience.