Ambassador Drawing

Merab was born on 13 March 1972 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Is married to Irma Kusiani (also an artist) and have two children. The artist avoids creating portrait faces of specific people. His characters are the product of the artist's imagination, his idealized types, generalized and allegorical, sometimes even seemingly genderless. It is difficult to assign them to any specific time and space. The heroes of Merab Gagiladze's works seem to have come from the past, but at the same time, they adapt to the modern world with eternal themes and values. It is determined by his artistic taste and clear priorities and, as it were, accumulated the influence of all previous eras and styles, on the contrary, he is happy to make his own interpretation and appropriation of these influences. Jan van Eyck, Lucas Cranach, Bosch, Rembrandt, Gustav Klimt, the works of the Pre-Raphaelites, Japanese, African or old Georgian art are the source of the artist's inspiration. A kind of eclectic mix in the details of his works create the artist's individual handwriting and elevated aesthetics, which is his main credo.