Garri Dadyan

Garri Dadyan ( born 1952 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is an Armenian artist who uses a variety of metals such as iron, copper, bronze, gold and silver in his metal works.
Dadyan's creations are evidence of a combination of ancient historical and religious motifs. His works are influenced by the richness of Armenian illuminated manuscripts, the daggers of medieval Arabia and Europe, and the ornamentation of Central Asia and Persia. In the course of his 30-year career he has rediscovered ancient craftsmanship secrets, and combined them with his own personal techniques of chiseling metal.
Dadyan's works have been presented in the largest galleries of Russia and Europe, and have been successfully acquired by government officials of many countries, and by collectors throughout the world. His masterly creation of the new chiseling technology has no equal.
Archduke Geza von Habsburg, the artistic director of Faberge & Co., and one of the world's leading authorities on Faberge, had this to say about Dadyan's work: "The fine repousse images of Melic Dadayan are part of a great tradition of art of the Eastern Churches reaching back into the Middle Ages from Northwest Russia to as far southeast as Armenia. In a time when contemporary Soviet artists have been vying with each other in ever more modern expressions, it is refreshing to see an old art form so beautifully revived."

• 1995 City Hall in Germany at the request of the city's government.
• 1980 8 facilities for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
• 1976-78 Government concert and conference halls. Hallways in Tashkent, Uzbekistan subways.
• 1975 Created a wall size (Soviet-Apollo) chiseled metal memorial.

• 1993 Became a member of the International Federation of Artists/UNESCO
• 1991 Became a member of the United Russian Artists.
• 1989 Became a member of the Art Society in Moscow.
• 1986 Countrywide art fair in Moscow.
• 1985 Earned the title of National Master of Art in the Soviet Union.
• 1981 Central Moscow Gallery.
• 1980 Central National Gallery.
• 1979 Earned the name of a National Master of Chiseling by the Russian Artist Gallery in Moscow.
• 1978-95 Exhibitions in USA, Japan, and European countries.
• 1974-79 National Arts Fund.

• 1973-74 Being in service in South Georgia, took lessons from some of the greatest masters in the art of chiseling daggers.
• 1969-73 Graduated a four-year college of applied decorational arts, Baku, Azerbaijan.