- Gela MIKAVA
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Original artwork description
This work explores the absolute distance between how we perceived the world as children and how we experience it today.
As children, reality was understood through fragments of animated worlds — different cartoon characters, different visual languages, all coexisting without conflict. Logic was not required. Meaning was emotional, intuitive, immediate. The world felt complete because it did not demand coherence.
The dark, vertically divided structure of the painting represents the architecture of adult reality — ordered, controlled, and emotionally restrained. Within this rigid system, small, colorful fragments of childhood perception appear like interruptions rather than memories. They do not belong to the structure; they resist it.
The cartoon figures at the base are not nostalgic references. They are remnants of a collective visual language that once allowed us to feel safe, curious, and open. In the context of the present world, they appear fragile, displaced, almost out of time.
This painting is not about remembering childhood — it is about realizing that the way we once understood the world no longer fits into the reality we have built.
Materials used:
Mixed media on textile and linen canvas
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 25 x 30 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Illustrative
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Tags:
#childhood#identity#figurative abstract#political art#conceptual abstract#art investment#figurative abstraction#cultural memory#visual culture#investing abstract
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Original artwork description
This work explores the absolute distance between how we perceived the world as children and how we experience it today.
As children, reality was understood through fragments of animated worlds — different cartoon characters, different visual languages, all coexisting without conflict. Logic was not required. Meaning was emotional, intuitive, immediate. The world felt complete because it did not demand coherence.
The dark, vertically divided structure of the painting represents the architecture of adult reality — ordered, controlled, and emotionally restrained. Within this rigid system, small, colorful fragments of childhood perception appear like interruptions rather than memories. They do not belong to the structure; they resist it.
The cartoon figures at the base are not nostalgic references. They are remnants of a collective visual language that once allowed us to feel safe, curious, and open. In the context of the present world, they appear fragile, displaced, almost out of time.
This painting is not about remembering childhood — it is about realizing that the way we once understood the world no longer fits into the reality we have built.
Materials used:
Mixed media on textile and linen canvas
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 25 x 30 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Illustrative
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Tags:
#childhood#identity#figurative abstract#political art#conceptual abstract#art investment#figurative abstraction#cultural memory#visual culture#investing abstract
Gela MIKAVA
Georgia
About
Born on November 16, 1995, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Gela Mikava is an artist with a unique multidisciplinary approach, blending architectural precision with artistic innovation. With a foundation rooted in both... Read more