Sergo Tbileli

About Sergo Tbileli

Sergo Tbileli is a prolific Georgian contemporary artist, he began his professional carrier in the early 70s in Soviet Georgia. While still pursuing his studies at the Tbilisi state academy. During his studies, he worked on monumental murals and sculptures all over the Soviet Union creating and contributing to the Soviet art scene. Learning different styles and evolving his style during his journeys all over the Eurasian continent. Financing his creative pursuits by working on Soviet state commissions.

During his early years, he worked a lot with the ceramic medium creating one of his first series of plates. he achieved fame with his series “Georgian Motives”, which represented his colorful vision of Caucasus and Georgia mountains landscapes. Selling out his show in Istanbul. After The “Georgian Motives” series he further evolved his style and started working on his new works which combined his prior vibrant colors and movement with mythical subjects and topics on a grander scale. Some of his masterpieces from that era are “Venice Carnival” 2006, “Nude” 2005 and etc. During 2017-2019 he started to experiment more with mixed media and also created his own font “Farnavazi ” inspired by the medieval hand-drawn Georgian scripts. As a part of the project “Farnavazi”, he created detailed bronze sculptures for each letter.

In 2021 he started experimenting with screen printing technologies creating a new project & exhibition “Anabechdi” in which the main topic for the series is the monumental poem “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin”. As a part of the project, he reimagined the characters and the world they exist in. As well as creating a new portrait of the author of the poem Shota Rustaveli. You can see more artworks by Sergo Tbileli on our website or at Sergo Tbileli’s website