"TeTri tba" da misi - Style Magazine

Lulu
Dadiani
Lulu Dadiani's creative world is filled with power and
intensity and maintains close connection with her ancestors'
land, Georgia. Her art feeds on the inexhaustible
source of myths, images, human relationships and southern
life-style, mingled with sorrow and poverty.
Lulu Dadiani attempts to bridge all this with the
European art, with which she came in touch through western
European language and literature studies back in the
1960'ies. The titles of Lulu Dadiani's paintings are also
associated with literary sources, especially with R. M. Rilke's
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"Duineser Elegies", which she translated into Georgian
and introduced to Georgian readers.
The relationship between Lulu Dadiani's work and literary
sources is not limited to naturalist motives, this is why
her paintings cannot be categorized as simple illustrations
- they rather represent a transposition of key subject-matter
into art. Her paintings show how deeply she appreciates
literary language, how well she has mastered it and
how efficiently she expresses it through her own art.
Lulu Dadiani's works are mainly abstract, sometimes
figurative, based on impressions achieved through expressivity
of color combinations and brush strokes.
Colored spaces and surfaces narrate about architectonic
structure of the paintings and the human environment,
so that the form proper can be interpreted without
objective or expositive expression.
Apart from the works, inspired by literature, Lulu Dadiani
paints original portraits, which are flows of associations,
elusive hints, rather than outright expression of individuality
- they feature the kind of heterogeneity, which does
not fall under precise definitions, but can be elevated to
presentational principles. The works feature important conceptual
gestures and psychological moods.
The same approach Lulu Dadiani uses in her landscapes,
which depict unknown, strange places with no
beginning and no end. These boundless spaces probably
reflect the artist's impressions from Georgian nature
and land.
Lulu Dadiani's paintings portray indefinite environment,
emotional vistas, which have not been copied from anywhere,
do not belong anywhere and are therefore modern
and easy to perceive.
Dr. Beate Reifenscheid
Saarland Museum
Art Critic
Abstract from the introduction to album of Lulu
Dadiani's works