Artist Talk Ani Gurashvili
Ani Gurashvili, Captured Daze, oil on canvas, 45 x 40cm, 2024
Malerei und Animationsfilm
"In Gurashvili’s universe,
one is thus by turns peering down through a half-stitched tear into an uncertain scene; backstage in a puppet theater where
the dramatization of paint and canvas spills out into iconographic overload; drifting through an undefined space where ornamental
flourish becomes precisely the frame through which you seem to look not into but out of the painting; or again in an almost
exact inversion of this, peering into the painting as though looking into a shallow box, a chest of drawers, a series of compartments
whose contents disperse under the still strange weight of painting’s promise to deliver some recognizable moment of grace."
–Edward Sterrett
