Sandro Čhaidze personālizstāde 'Faņķiki'

“Faņķiki”
The exhibition “Faņķiki” invites the viewer into a visual system constructed by the artist, where painting is approached not as image-making but as a structural and conceptual process. In these works, the canvas becomes a space in which line, rhythm, and color are organized as interdependent elements, forming an autonomous visual structure.

Since the beginning of the so-called “Striped Period,” stripes have occupied a central role in the artist’s practice. They function as a grid, a skeleton, or a backbone that organizes the pictorial space. This structure is not merely a formal device but also a tool for thinking. It allows the painting to develop as a constructed entity in which every color, plane, and rhythm enters the composition through a sequential process: first the line, then the stripes, followed by color, plasticity, and finally the emergence of freedom.

The artist’s background in graphic design is reflected in this disciplined and systematic approach, yet it is translated into the field of painting. As a result, the works function as visual objects that exist somewhere between painting, design, and conceptual construction. The artist himself refers to his works as products—autonomous visual units that possess both material presence and conceptual clarity.

The exhibition title “Faņķiki” introduces another layer to the works’ aesthetic language. The word evokes associations with colorful candy wrappers—bright, graphic, and visually playful surfaces that attract attention through rhythm and color. Beneath this apparent playfulness, however, lies a strict internal order. The artist deliberately distances himself from random or purely spontaneous abstraction; instead, his paintings emerge from a controlled process in which elements of deconstruction appear only in measured doses, maintaining tension within the structure.

At the same time, the exhibition functions as a condensed overview of the artist’s work from the past three years, revealing the consistency and evolution of his visual language. The predominantly medium-sized acrylic paintings create a spatial rhythm within the exhibition space, where repetition, variation, and chromatic relationships generate visual movement.

“Faņķiki” reveals the artist’s personal reality—a world constructed through lines, rhythms, and pure colors. Within this world, painting becomes a structured experience, where the viewer encounters not merely an image but a system that is both rational and intuitive. It is precisely within this tension between construction and freedom that the energy of the works emerges.

Author’s CV
Sandro Čaridze was born in 1969 in Kandava, Latvia. In 1987 he entered the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of Graphic Design. After completing his studies, he returned to Riga in 1992, where he worked as a graphic designer and organized solo exhibitions in Riga, Latvia, as well as in several other European countries. Since 2006 he has been living and working in Tbilisi, Georgia.