Since the 1980s, Gela Zautashvili has actively participated in numerous exhibitions in Georgia and abroad. These include:
“Generation of the ‘80s” at the Artist House, Tbilisi (1986). “Retrospective of Modern Georgian Art” at the Central House of Artists, Moscow, USSR (1987). “Georgian Figurative Art” at Hermitage Garden, Moscow, USSR (1987). “The First Group Exhibition of Georgian Abstract Painting” at the State Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (1987). “Vanguard – 88” at the Museum of Tbilisi, Georgia (1988). “Eidos: The Idea of Plastic and Social” at the Gallery on Petrovka, Moscow, USSR (1988). “The Soviet Avant-Garde 1920–1980” at the Arts Palace, Minsk, Belarus (1989). “Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia 1970–1980” at the Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provence, France (1989). East Wave “Red and White” in Warsaw and Amsterdam (1989). “International Art Fair” in Chicago, USA (1989). “Exhibition of Works of Soviet Artists” at Gallery Bodenschatz, Basel, Switzerland (1989). “Art” in Melbourne, Australia (1990). “ART MIF 2” Moscow International Art Fair at the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege,” Moscow (1991).
“…And though the painting of Gela Zautashvili is a painting, let’s free ourselves from being spellbound by such tautology. His work continues the high tradition of the mutual contiguity of musical and plastic arts in the twentieth century, represented by luminaries such as Scriabin, Kandinsky, Klee, Schoenberg, Mondrian, Cage, Pollock, Nuno, and other great artists,” writes Leonid Bazchanov, Head of the Center of Art Culture of Moscow.
