TOUTITÉ – ILIAZD The Study of Form on view at the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation, Bolzano, Italy

TOUTITÉ – ILIAZD The Study of Form is on view October 11, 2025 – June 27, 2026

“The exhibition – curated by Eva Brioschi and Julia Marchand – is the largest Italian retrospective presenting the work of Ilia Zdanevich – ILIAZD (Tbilisi 1894 – Paris 1975), a poet, writer, designer, scholar, and admirer of Byzantine and Georgian sacred architecture. A radical publisher and maître du livre d’artiste, Iliazd explored diverse creative approaches.

Starting with his contribution to the Boîte-en-Valise series C (commissioned by Marcel Duchamp between 1954 and 1958), the exhibition traces the evolution of his artistic methods, culminating in his innovative bookmaking. Iliazd conceived the book as an art object—a construction based on the mutual interplay between text and image, an intellectual and spatial architecture, both system and form.

The title TOUTITÉ represents the most cohesive interpretation of the Russian term vsechestvo and the French toutisme—also rendered in English as Everythingism. According to the curators Brioschi and Marchand, toutitè represents “an artistic attitude that refuses to set spatial or temporal boundaries”, “a study of the form of forms”, a transversal, transnational, and transdisciplinary approach, an unrestricted creative principle, open to infinite variations.

The exhibition will feature architectural reliefs, design projects in the realm of fashion—where Iliazd collaborated with Sonia Delaunay and Coco Chanel—alongside archival materials from his publishing career and notable artists’ books. Among these are pages from the books LidantYU fAram (1923), Un Soupçon (1965), and Le Frère Mendiant (1959), illustrated by Pablo Picasso, as well as the entire “book-object” Poésie de mots inconnus (1949) – with illustrations by Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque, among others.”