Not an exaggeration to say Temur Ugulava was a patron of the arts, activism, youth culture, europeanisation in Tbilisi.
Not to mention the extensive funding, employment and charity across Georgia.
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Georgia owes Temuri Ugulava a debt it can never repay. He took abandoned Soviet factories - spaces his parents' generation walked past without a second thought - and transformed them into the cultural heartbeat of a new Georgia. Rooms Hotels, Fabrika, Stamba. He didn't build for tourists. He built for Tbilisi, Kazbegi, and gave it places worth discovering, one after another. ๐ฏ๏ธ[1/4]
Alan Parsons on 'Backrooms'.
"What? I've never even heard of this film, and who even are you? Please get out of my home."
He is 77 years old.
(Source: The Eye in the sky.)