Merab Merabishvili, an artist – sculptor, a People’s Artist of Georgia, a real member of the Georgian Academy of Science and the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, the head of the Department of Drawing 1991-2004, honorable citizen of Tbilisi born on July  6, 1931 in Tbilisi, in the family of celebrated Georgian sculptor and public figure Konstantine Merabishvili and his wife Sophia. Konstantine Merabishvili was also a real member of the Russian Academy of Arts, a People’s Artist of Georgia, Professor of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, an author of the Monument of Shota Rustaveli and creator of numerous other monuments and portraits.

Merab Merabishvili’s creative work had begun in 1959, his being a postgraduate of the Academy of Arts and is going on now.

In M. Merabishvili’s art the following works are considered as basic:

1. The Monument of A. Griboedov in Tbilisi, bronze, 1961,
size 5m 40cm. (without pedestal). Union competition I award;

2. The Horsed Statue of King Erekle the Second in Telavi,
bronze, 1971, size 8.5 m. (without pedestal). Republican competition I award;

3. The Horsed Statue of General P. Bagrationi in Tbilisi,
bronze 1984,size 6m. (without pedestal);

4. The Monument of G. Dimitrov in Moscow, bronze, 1973
(with K. Merabishvili) size 6m. (without pedestal). Union competition I award;

5. The monument of Shota Rustaveli in Hungary, the city of Budapest, bronze, 2011
(with K. Merabishvili);

6. The Horsed Statue of General P. Bagrationi in Moscow,
Kutusov Avenue, bronze, 1999, size 6m. (without pedestal);

7. The Monument of Academician N. Bogolubov in Dubna,
(Moscow District, the Centre Atomic Research) bronze, 2001, size 3 m. (with pedestal);

8. The Monument of poet I. Mosashvili in Tbilisi, bronze,
size 3m. (with pedestal).

 Compositions: “Sorrow”, “Prometheus” and others, wide gallery of portraits of famous workers, the bust of George Bush (elder) which is now at the Texas University, USA.
M. Merabishvili is now working on the monument of composer Rezo Lagidze and on the monument of academician V. Veksler in Dubna.          

He was awarded with two gold medals of the Russian Academy of Arts (1961, 2001) and G. Dimitrov gold medal in 1974. 

According the words of Mr. Merabishvili his credo in fine Arts is: “In my creative work I’m a realist. As it’s known, realism has a wide diapason and it doesn’t prevent me from great interest and deep respect to the new trends in Art.

I’m indifferent in what style and manner is done the work, if there exists Art.

The Image is the apotheosis in Art. It opens not only the essence of the subject, but also mind and soul of the artist, his attitude to it. It’s unimportant by what means it’s expressed. Art doesn’t need any advocate”.           

That’s briefly about him and his feelings towards Art.