The artistic transformation of reality, expressed in the specific language of painting and submitted to the imagination and will of an artist, is the essence of Edmond Kalandadze’s art. For him, reality is the coexistence of life and death, love and violence, chaos and order. The artist strives to express these eternal beginnings with such “visual forces” as form and color.

Kalandadze perceives the world as colors, and for him the foremost means of expression is also color. He achieves artistic unity through the ratio of colored varnish and colored masses that bring together the compositional, essential, visual or emotional structure of the work. “Unity of diversity” in Kalandadze’s work is manifested through harmonizing the fundamental, often contradictory, principles of painting – surface and space, spot and image.

The artist manages to harmonize all the intellectual and fine elements of a painting in such way that the pictorial world he creates turns into the most beautiful interpretation of reality.

Nana Shervashidze