The creation of a first Republic of Georgia in 1918 arouses all hopes. Until its brutal and military reintegration into the USSR in 1921... Placing the spotlight on the three crazy years of this enchanted independent parenthesis, BOZAR reveals an avant-garde located at 41° between past and future, between East and West: if it draws on Georgian traditions and the teaching of Russian Fine Arts, to better reinvent cubism, futurism, Dadaism, zaoum or toutism. Even though most of the artists exhibited ended their days in Paris, it is clear that we know practically none of them.

Extract from the article by Emmanuel Daydé published in No. 109 of the Art Absolument magazine. Published on January 11, 2024.

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