Picture Planes in Motion

A brief glance at Nino Karumidze's works, be it her easel canvas or acrylic-gouache paintings, is enough to observe the artist's mastery, not just to set in motion the images, but the entire picture plane. Here human figures and their surrounding environment are united in a single whole, by a dynamic, all embracing movement of an energetic brushstroke. Being stretched along the horizontal format, or having the vertical arrangement, the compositional alignment of Nino's works, never reproduces clear outlines of bodies or geometrical forms. In contrast, the shapes are always curved and dissolved, whilst the multiplication of several elements, generates the dynamic rhythm of movement. By interweaving figures, objects and the natural environs, the vibrant brush stroke forms different shapes on the picture plane, as though it reflects the vibration of the invisible, intangible: sounds, music, scents... The theme of music is frequently highlighted in her works: the soft sound of piano or violin, or the drumming of a full-sized orchestra, revealed through the incessant movement of dissolved, half-transparent shapes, saturates the space in her pictures dedicated to music.

By means of colors, ranging from soft combination to intensive, often contrasting palette, the artist expresses different moods. "My pictures imply the quest for the expression of harmony of human beings with nature, the unity of inner and outer worlds"- states the artist and indeed, the animated atmosphere in Nino's works recreated through the vibrant movement of the tangible: bodies and objects, plants and animals and the intangible: sounds and sensations, make this profound unity accessible to the beholder.