Anton Gagua

Anton Gagua is a Georgian poet and self-taught painter whose creative journey flows between language and color. Born in Samtredia, in 1977 and now based in Batumi (Georgia), he carries the voice of a poet into every canvas, transforming paint into verse and turning abstraction into metaphor. For Gagua, painting is not only a visual act but a continuation of poetry — an extension of rhythm, silence, and emotional depth onto the surface of the canvas.

His paintings are marked by expressive abstraction and a deep sensitivity to mood. Vivid reds blaze like sudden emotions, while blacks and greys anchor the viewer in gravity and reflection. Splashes of yellow and white often break through as moments of light, hope, or transcendence. These contrasts create dynamic compositions that seem to shift between turmoil and serenity, echoing the dualities found in human life — chaos and calm, despair and resilience, stillness and motion.

Many of his works resemble landscapes not of the external world, but of the inner one. They evoke nature’s forces — storms, oceans, forests, skies — yet always with a sense of being metaphors for human feeling. In this way, his canvases invite viewers to step into emotional terrains: a burning horizon as memory, a waterfall as renewal, a field of color as unspoken longing. Each brushstroke holds both personal confession and universal resonance, allowing every observer to discover their own reflection in the work.

In the gallery space, Anton Gagua stands as a multidimensional creator — a poet of both word and image. His paintings, like his poems, remind us that art is not only what we see or read, but what we feel and carry with us after the encounter.