The Georgian artist Karlo Kacharava was a poet, art critic, and artist, prolifically productive, but a life cut short. In November 1993, a robber in Moscow struck him on the back of the head; five months later he suffered a ruptured aneurysm. Two surgeries could not save Kacharava and he died at 30. He had already started Archivarius and X Floor, two groups for young avant-garde artists. He traveled between Tbilisi, Cologne, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Kacharava left unfinished his final work, The Art of Darkness, which he’d been painting for 11 days by candlelight. This show explores the short-lived but influential artist, whose first solo exhibition was posthumous. —Elena Clavarino