Maria Karimpidi was born and raised in post-Soviet Georgia in 1989, lived in Crete, and graduated as an artist from the Thessaloniki School of Art. She lives and works in Germany since 2016.
Maria observes everyday situations and transforms these experiences from her living world into architectural offsets and still life elements combine in her work with graphic perspective escapes, which are translated into the two-dimensional in an irritating way.

Abstract and figurative ensembles emerge from gentle architectural allusions, rougher backdrops, and plant additions, which, in addition to their reference to real models, always play with the pictorial means of color, surface, line, and space. The perspective alignment is seemingly exaggeratedly used as a means of design that goes beyond isometry. Torn from the context of a uniform illusionary space, these graphic means of suggesting plasticity create an unreal distance to the objects and play with the understanding of space and its representation without becoming cubist. Line and surface do not become architectural models, but subtly ironically twisted.

In her spatial views, this principle of perspective tilt is collaged in tape and painting and continues to play with expectations as well as light and shadow. Taped-off surfaces and informal-looking marbling structures expand the imagery to include finishes, lifestyle elements, materialized surfaces to sketchy silhouette spaces. Cheerful abstractions in block-like stabilized plaster mounts or suitably simple flatness emphasize the contrast between geometry and free form in a graphic basic tenor. Her illusory worlds remain pretty spaces of longing but seem visually grounded. There is still some freshness to be expected in a graceful colorfulness. Follow Maria on Instagram