Giorgi Abkhazi The catalogue documents the life and work of Giorgi Abkhazi, an unfairly forgotten Georgian Italian artist. Giorgi Abkhazi was born in Georgia in 1892, grew up with his father's relatives in Tbilisi until 1911, and at the end of 1913 he went to Liege. In 1914, Giorgi had already settled in Paris, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts and tried to gain a foothold in the profession of a scenographer. From 1919, Giorgi worked as a military attaché in the diplomatic mission of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Rome. Giorgi made revolutionary breakthroughs in twentieth-century Italian culture. In the first quarter of the twentieth century, monumental forms appeared in Georgian painting. Georgian modernist art of that time was simultaneously influenced by Eastern and Western cultural narratives, as young artists understood well that the border environment and territorially framed thinking killed the diversity of thought and prevented the conception of new concepts. Giorgi Abkhazi is a prominent representative and great master of the wave that combined Georgian and Italian futurisms. Most of his works were created for stage productions; however, the complexity of the compositions and the uniqueness of the characters made them graphic masterpieces in their own right.