Gela Samsonidze
March 13 to April 26, 2016
The artist already had an exhibition on the attic floor in 2007. A selection of his most recent paintings can currently be seen at the same location. The large-format paintings (oil on canvas) date from 2015 and 2016. It is charming that all the paintings are entitled O.T. (untitled). However, what the artist is showing is not new and has been familiar since the last exhibition. The constructivist structures vary between circular and rectangular shapes, forming grid patterns with and without circles.
The coloring has not necessarily become more vivid, but more finely tuned, so that after a longer look you can discover a veritable color space - according to the optical law: light colors in front, dark colors behind - with one decisive exception: the light yellow-orange is overlaid by dark bars and therefore shines out intensely from the depths.
This work from 2015 breaks with the usual pattern. The short pieces of bar form a lively round dance that seems to circulate clockwise from the bottom right across the picture surface.
A close-up view shows the overlapping of the grid structures. The transparent overlaps provide additional color nuances.
A close-up view shows the overlapping of the grid structures. The transparent overlaps provide additional color nuances.
January 28 to March 16, 2007: Painting
It seems as if the paintings were created especially for the attic floor. This is due on the one hand to the careful hanging and on the other to the artistic pictorial structures such as beams, loops and loops, as well as highly artificial underlying color compositions. The combination of these components opens up a kind of dialog between architecture and painting. The alignment lines of the corridors, the curtained window frames, the walls divided by doors and - last but not least - the dabs of color from the audience appear as an aesthetic ensemble in the context of the paintings.
Perhaps this is why the spatiality of the pictures is so striking, achieved by layering grid, loop and bar structures in front of color surfaces. It is remarkable that at first glance a decidedly two-dimensional quality is noticeable, which opens up into a color space on closer inspection.
n.d., oil on canvas, 120x200 cm, 2006
View into the hallway
The musical contribution on Sunday, January 28, 2007, from the saxophone quartet of the Staufen music school. Among other things, they played "Solitude" by Duke Ellington.
Vita
- Born 1965 in Georgia.
- 1990-1995 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 1991 received the academy scholarship. n 2002 studio scholarship from the municipality of Langenargen on Lake Constance.
- Lives and works in Germany in Merzhausen near Freiburg im Breisgau since 1994.