Robert Kondakhsazov

Robert Kondakhsazov (; July 26, 1937 – June 23, 2010) was a Georgian-born artist, writer and philosopher, and an Honored Artist of Georgia.

Biography

Robert Kondakhsazov was born on July 23, 1937, in Tbilisi, Georgia.

After graduating from the Tbilisi Academy of Art in 1963 worked in the areas of design, book illustrating and scenography, was the lead artist of the Tbilisi state Puppetry theatre.

Kondakhsazov started exposing his art in 1964, first personal exhibition took place in 1989.

Starting October 2005 Kondakhsazov resided in Moscow, Russia where he deceased in 2010.

Art and exhibitions

Robert Kondakhsazov is an author of over 1,000 paintings. They are stored in Tbilisi National Museum of Arts as well as in private collections in Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Great Britain, USA, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Australia and other countries.

List of exhibitions includes:

1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1975 – annual poster exhibition in the State picture gallery of Georgia 1965 – participation in the decorative and applied arts exposition in All-Russia Exhibition Centre, Moscow, USSR 1973 – honored diploma of the Ministry of Culture of USSR and All-Russia theatrical society for performance design in Tbilisi State Puppetry 1988 – Retrospective exhibition of Georgian Art, Central House of Artists, Moscow, USSR 1989 – First personal exhibition in the House of Artist, Tbilisi, USSR 2000 – Exhibition "Yesterday-Today", "Vernisage" gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 2002 – Art Exhibition, "TBC" Bank, Tbilisi, Georgia 2003 – "Kaleidoscope" Art Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia 2003 – "Sixtiers - Artists" exposition, National Art Gallery of Georgia 2003 – Personal exposition, "Sololaki" gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 2006 – Personal exposition, "The Other Art" gallery of the Russian State University for the Humanities museum center (branch of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts) 2006 – "Dialogue of Cultures. Armenia – Russia" exposition, Moscow House of Nationalities 2008 – "New Eclecticism" exhibition, exhibition hall of Moscow Artists Union, Moscow, Russia 2008 – Personal Exhibition, "IBM" company, Moscow, Russia 2008 – Personal Exhibition, Roslin Art Gallery of Armenian Art, Moscow, Russia 2009 – "Art-Most" exhibition, Yerevan, Armenia 2010 – Memorial Personal Exhibition, Caucasus House, Tbilisi, Georgia

Literature experience

Robert Kondakhsazov is an author of memoirs "Unfinished notebooks" , part of which was published in Friendship of Nations , Russia, Magazine in 2011. Apart from paintings, Robert Kondakhsazov wrote memoirs, poems and philosophical notes.