Zdanevich worked across various genres; he painted murals in Tiflis's cafe-clubs, worked as a book illustrator and designed the interior of Ladia argonavtov [The Argonaut], where he staged his performances. The 1920s were successful years in Zdanevich's artistic career. He again traveled to Paris where he learned further diverse styles of artistic expression, namely Cubism, Expressionism and Abstraction. There he met his fellow artists Larionov, Goncharova, Gudiashvili and Kakabadze as well as his brother Ilia, whom he would only meet again after a gap of 45 years, a period coloured by both artistic achievements and troubled years of repression.

Zdanevich greeted the installation of the B...