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Artist Statement:
Artistic education :
self-taught
My earlier paintings: “Color
symphonies” (oil on canvas)
“Still life” and “Autumn still
life” (1988) are examples of
my earlier work. My aim was to
create color symphony, without
any philosophical load, only
vibrant strokes, interaction
of colors and objects
sometimes reflected in each
other.
White lines on dark background
(gouache on cardboard):
“Party” (1990) and “Cube”
(1993) are examples of the
body of work which I began in
1989.
These are mostly minimalist
figurative compositions with
white lines on dark
background. Human figures,
their interaction, linear
transformations of the
objects, rhythmic harmony of
construction – these are the
main features of my work.
Since then linear style has
become dominating in my
activity, although during all
this time I have also been
creating color figurative
compositions with substantive
philosophical and
psychological content.
Digital (digitally embellished
pencil drawings):
Recently I began experimenting
with digital effects. So, I
scan my drawings and then use
different computer
manipulations. I find this
process very absorbing and
interesting. The examples of
this body of work are
“Abstract dance” (2006),
“Linear Universe” (2006),
“Lovers” (2007).
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Artist Exhibitions:
Group exhibition “New
Colours“, International
company “Anima“ presents
self-educated painters in
Modern art gallery, Tbilisi,
November 1993.
Solo
exhibition in Old gallery,
Tbilisi, March 1995.
Solo
exhibition in Old gallery,
Tbilisi, January 1999.
Solo
exhibition “Interactions” in
Art-Domain gallery, Port
d’Andratx,
Mallorca, Spain, September
2003.
Group
exhibition ...
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Lia Chechelashvili's work is an exercise in means and effect. As she says, "minimum means and maximum expression" is her goal. Her work plays with the formal character of continuous white line on a dark background. The sinuous drawings wrap around the picture transforming line into figuration, denoted dimension, and pure abstraction. Other works exercise the same dramatic rhythmic form but use color. Lia's world is a magical one. The characters live in a weightless and sometimes boundless space. Characters and forms relate to one another in a way that speaks about human interaction. In this sense, her work is about the relationship between individuals and the space of interaction.
Lia Chechelashvili uses lines to describe relationships. Her painting The Cube depicts two figures: one female figure made of weightless line that freely moves about as it describes the female form and one male figure that exists more statically in the lower region of The Cube. The play between Chechelashvili's figures and her clever use of line is telling. With just enough information she describes a universal relationship within a closed system - a familiar allegory of male and female archetypes. With well-considered line she defines a still introverted male, facing away from the viewer and the curvilinear levitating female.
Chechelashvili's work examines human narrative within reductive form. Her background in quantitative thinking is a visible component in her efficiently designed figures and volumes. Chechelashvili's figures exist between physiological and psychological representation. With linear transformations she skews the viewer's perceptions and entices a rewarding visual journey.
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