Dear gallery MuseumLV and Grata JJ cultural centre friends and colleagues!

From April 18 to May 30, 2026, the exhibition “Faņķiki” by artist Sandro Čhaidze will be on view at MuseumLV Art Gallery, located in the Grata JJ Cultural Center.

“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.

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.Sandro Chkhaidze

Author’s CV

''I was born in Kandava (a city in Latvia) in 1969.

In 1987 I entered the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts – the faculty of Graphic Design.
In 1992 I returned to Riga, worked as a graphic designer, organized my personal exhibitions in Riga, Latvia and some other European countries. Now I live and work in Tbilisi (Georgia) since 2006.

I have drawn professionally and participating in exhibitions since 1990. During the last 15 years,
I mostly work in acrylic technique on canvas. Acrylic best matches the modern rhythm. Before that, most works were in oil and graphics with gouache and mixed media, as well as collages. The sizes of my works are mostly medium format, starting from 50x50cm up to 150x150cm. Until 2010 my works were created in different manners, but then the “STRIPE PERIOD” began, which continues nowadays as well.

I have the feeling that I don't just paint my paintings, I build and model them. The task of drawing a Typewriter or whatever is not interesting to me in itself. The result must be something more than just a painting. Something that nowadays could boldly be called a PRODUCT. Yes, exactly!

Stripes are a sort of grid or backbone through which I build my world. First there is the line, then the stripes, then comes the color, then the plasticity and finally there is freedom. Order and no coincidences, pure colors. Accidental art is unacceptable to me. A little deconstruction, but in the right dose, and then my personal reality comes in, which I share without hesitation.

This exhibition is like a retrospective to show you as much as possible what I've been working on over the last three years."  

PERSONAL ART EXHIBITIONS:

03/1990 - Tbilisi “White Gallery”

08/1993 - Riga, “ASŪNA” gallery

12/1993 - Riga, Christmas exhibition “HOTEL DE ROME”

01/1994 - Riga, Christmas exhibition in Orthodox Cathedral

09/1994 - Riga, ARSENĀLS “My black-and-white cinema”

05/1995 - Riga, Gallery “ARS MODERNA”, “Reflection”

09/1995 - Denmark, Copenhagen “GALLERY 68”

05/1996 - Riga, gallery “ARS MODERNA”

11/1996 - France, Dijon Conference hall, Georgian days

03/1998 - Denmark, Copenhagen “GALLERY 68”

02/1999 - Riga –BALTARS’99

03/2011 - Gallery “Tiflis Avenue”, Tbilisi (Exhibition “Striped Period”)

01/2018 - TBC Art Gallery, Tbilisi (Exhibition “BEYOND THE STRIPES”)

11/2019 - Rietumu Bank Art Gallery, Riga (Exhibition “BEYOND THE STRIPES”) 

07/2025 - GALERIE ORANGE, Tegernsee, Germany (Exhibition “I’m Still Standing”)

10/2025 - CRA office Munich, Germany 



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