Elene Akhvlediani’s work unites the experiences of Modernism and avant-garde with the specific elements of Georgian culture that she primarily focuses on. In her paintings, Georgian culture incorporates and assimilates various signs of progressive movements and traditions, thus transforming them into Georgian “species.” Based on the artist’s temperament, universal views are transformed into a festive show. She had an amazing ability to observe unusual features in everyday things; to award a particular degree of beauty to everything she painted: be it landscape, object, figure, air or light.

In Elene Akhvlediani’s work, nature is always painted in a meticulously fine and decorative way. It is filled with musical rhythm and emotions, at times boisterous and energetic, but at others calm, lyrical, and harmonious. Her paintings are always “auto figural” – loaded with the author’s emotions, temperament, and love for the subject matter. Her themes include landscape variations, while the world with its material structure and infinite sources of beauty belong to her elements.

During the difficult political and ideological times of the 20th century in Georgia, Akhvlediani created the object of worship – the “icon” of Georgia. With the specific model of the beauty of her homeland, she introduced a positive argument for the world’s existence in an era of crisis and totalitarian conditions.

Baia Tsikoridze