Personal Space: Graphic Works by Lika Tsereteli
The “Personal Space” exhibition project has been organized especially for the Fine Art Gallery. The hand is drawing an endless line which will never become strait, it is weaving traceries and creating ornamental abstract or figurative compositions. On the walls there are extraordinary drawings, the air is full of the color of brightly drawn butterflies and birds of paradise – we find ourselves in an installation space which is harmonious and refined – a personal space of Lika Tsereteli.
The drawings are unknown as they have never been exhibited to the public although Lika Tsereteli has gone into graphic art since 1985. The main modeling principle of her drawings is tracery, the ornament is not auxiliary, it is her individual language of the image visualization. Supple and twisting treads flow creating a dynamic grid structure, a network, the cells of which produce an effect of lightness and transparence.
The ornament is a “body” of her drawing enclosed either in abstract forms or in forms of real objects or figures they are associated with. The beautiful, the imaginative is an inner essence of Lika Tsereteli’s graphic work. If we see a man and a woman, they are certainly to be a lady and a cavalier; an architectural object looks like a magic castle, the sign is associated with the heraldry, and a conditional landscape is always lyric and full of poetry.
Lika Tsereteli draws every time when her hands are free, the graphic process does not depend on a place or environment. For her, the drawing is a way to enjoy the life, to express her unity with the world and her isolation in it, her pictorial system reflects her inner cognition processes. Each drawing is an improvisation, a momentary emotional experience. Lika Tsereteli is an artist-introvert, she feels everything inside herself and creates her own world through her own images. We only perceive the beauty of her inner world, an absolute detachment from the realities that is a source of the fantastic character of her works.
What does the artist Lika Tsereteli depict? And what is haiku poetry about? For example: “It was a moment’s flickering…/ In its unblown beauty -/ The face of the evening moon”. In Lika’s works like in Japanese poems there is some vagueness. If a viewer is able to become a co-author of the artist, then the sensory perception of Lika’s works will be an urge for philosophical reflections and fantasy. At the same time, it has been noticed that in this exhibition space the artist’s magic birds and butterflies spontaneously move. But they are not alive! They are being watched.
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