PETRE OTSKHELI
B.1907, Kutaisi, Georgia.
Sentenced to death in 1937, Moscow, Russia.
Education:
1913 Saint Philip Neri French Catholic School, Moscow, Russia.
1920 Real School, Kutaisi, Georgia.
1927 Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Solo Exhibitions:
1973 Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1988 Solo Exhibition dedicated to the artist’s 80th anniversary, Artists’ House, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1998 Solo Exhibition dedicated to the artist’s 90th anniversary, National Library of the Parliament of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2000 ‘Petre Otskheli Designs For The Georgian Theatre,’ Royal National Theatre, London, UK.
2001/2007 Exhibition Hall, Batumi, Georgia.
2007 Exhibition Hall, Batumi, Georgia.
Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2012 ‘Petre Otskheli – Retrospective,’ Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Exhibition Hall, Batumi, Georgia.
2017 ‘Petre Otskheli – Eternal Contemporary,’ TBC Art Gallery, Art Palace, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Group Exhibitions:
1934 International Exhibition of Theatre Art, New York, USA.
1939 The World Design Exhibition, London, UK.
1963 The National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
State Art Gallery, Kutaisi, Georgia.
1964 Artists’ Union Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
1974 Theatre Designer’s Exhibition, Saarbrucken, Germany.
1978 Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Cinema, Music, and Choreography Tbilisi, Georgia.
1979 Artists’ Union Exhibition, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
1980 Actor’s House Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1983 Artists’ Union Exhibition, Kutaisi, Georgia.
2004 ‘From Collection to Collection,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2005 ‘Fantastic City,’ Baia Gallery, Gallery Vernissage, TBC Bank, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2008 ‘XX Century – Starting Space,’ Georgian modernism from private collections, Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2010 ‘Georgian Art from Private Collections XX Century,’ Baia Gallery, New Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2017 ‘Rarity,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi Georgia.
2018 ‘Collector,’ Silk Factory Studio, Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2019 ‘Expo 1919–2019,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2020 ‘Kirill Zdanevich and His Era,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2020/2021 ‘Art Expo XX-XXI,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2021– 2022 ‘Elene Akhvlediani and Her Era,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2022 ‘Georgian Modernism and Tbilisi Avant-Garde (1910-1932), The National Gallery, Tbilisi Georgia.
Achievements:
1927 Scenography production ‘The Fire Starters,’ The Tbilisi Labor Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1928 - 1930 Meets Kote Marjanishvili, who invited him to design the production of ‘Hurriel Acosta’ (K. Gutskov), State Drama Theatre, Kutaisi, Georgia.
1937 He was invited to the Moscow Korsh Theatre together with Kote Marjanishvili. He also worked on plays in various theatres: Tbilisi State Drama Theatre; Tbilisi Armenian Drama Theatre; The State Academic Maly Theatre, Moscow, Russia; State
Youth Theatre; K. Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre; K. Stanislavsky, and Nemirovich-Danchenko State Music Theatre; ‘Georgian Movement Theatre’ (1934). In total, Otskheli creates set and costume designs for 40 plays.
Sketches for Leo Esakia’s film ‘Flying Painter.’
Awards and Honors:
1937 Received the first Premium for the sketches of Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ at the competition of stage designers organized by Konstantin Stanislavsky.
1939 Received a Golden Medal at The World Design Exhibition, London, UK.
PETRE OTSKHELI WITH
VERIKO ANJAPARIDZE