Nino Kipshidze “Textile, Appliqué”
October – December, 2020
19a Ingorokva Street
Established in Bauhaus as fine art, textile, or fiber art has gone through several stages of development, blurring the line between art and craft. Cloth printing and the application of colored threads, patterns, and overlays have become new ways of artistic expression, with textile artworks being increasingly displayed at art exhibitions.
Widespread in Georgia long before, patchwork has acquired a new dimension in Nino Kipshidze’s works. Small pieces of cloth of different colors and textures, masterly combined into thematic compositions, offer a visual representation of reality.
Kipshidze’s works follow the central principle of easel painting – the space and plane are structured through the exploration and interpretation of the figurative and decorative potential of color patches. Like a painter, she constructs her works by distributing colors over the plane. Thanks to the powerfully expressive images and forms in her landscapes, still lifes, and figurative compositions, her works escape the limits of patchwork and acquire a surprisingly painterly effect.
Nino Simonishvili