Ruslan Gudiev is an artist with an extraordinary background: he was born at 1944 in the mountain village of Kobi in Georgia, studied at the Tskhinvali Art School, worked as a designer and architect and performed as a professional musician in several pop and jazz bands. Ruslan Gudiev became a painter in the mid-1980s, and at the same time he came to his main style - abstract expressionism: Painting that is born between color and notcolor, form and notform, image and notimage. Between scare and hope. Painting that lives, trembles and pulsates in the rhymes of the Universe and in the rhymes of eternal «dance» of an artist in front of a canvas. He registers reality in a non-illusory way, when material appears in all kinds of transformation and becomes a unique topic.

Gudiev’s roughly-naive, aesthetically-delicate art is a philosophy instead philosophy. This art exists for the readers of Spengler, Niztsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus but it is not an illustration for esotericism, or for zenbuddism, Middle Age alchemistry and Kabbalah. However it provokes meditation and studying of transcendental relations. This is art that was called by the French art historian Michelle Tapier «I’art informel», «art of other forms» (literally «art of outside forms»). The basis of that art was founded by such artists as the Spanish Antonio Tapis, French Jean Dubuffet and Jean Fautrillet, Italian Alberto Burri. It is the art of «technical improvisation», «spontaneous technique», «open form» (U. Eco), intuitive and improvisational understanding of «mythological unconscious». It was developing together with tashism, lyrical abstraction and abstract improvisation. One is not to think what kind of tradition led to the development of Gudiev’s art. Probably, none. Ruslan Gudiev’s artworks are in the collections of MMOMA, The State Tretyakov Gallery, The Ministry of Culture of Russia, The Grand Duchess of Luxemburg, Walter Bischoff Galerie and other private collections in USA, UK, UAE, Russia, Germany, Switzerland and Norway