This abstract painting features a muted color palette of soft grays, tans, and hints of blue, creating a hazy, atmospheric composition. The brushstrokes are loose and expressive, with a sense of movement and fluidity across the canvas. While there are no recognizable objects or figures, the overall effect evokes a sense of natural landscapes or weathered surfaces. The artist's technique emphasizes the materiality of the paint, blurring the line between representation and pure abstraction. This piece likely aims to capture a contemplative, introspective mood, inviting the viewer to engage with the subtle interplay of colors and textures. ...
Rather than simply dividing or reorganising existing gallery spaces, Tolia Astakhishvili's installations spill across newly defined thresholds of space. The artist's installations combine decay and destruction with a sense of inexorable replication and endless reconfiguration of space. Building elements in her work become signifiers of both what they are and what they undo, of their assembly and disassembly. In this way, Astakhishvili's work appropriates, extends and incorporates given spaces. The audience is also subsumed in Astakhishvili's work, becoming another element framed by the proliferating and unreasonable architecture. ...
