"Adventures of the black square" in London
ARTinvestment.RU   23 января 2015

At London's Whitechapel gallery, an exhibition of over one hundred works of a hundred masters and artists of the twentieth century, among which Malevich, Rodchenko, Popova, El Lissitzky, Carl Andre, Dan flavin and Piet Mondrian

The Gallery Whitechapel
15 January - 6 April 2015
77-82 Whitechapel High St, London

At London's Whitechapel gallery opened an exhibition "the adventures of the black square", dedicated to the history of abstract art in the last hundred years. The exposition includes works by more than 100 authors from Buenos Aires to Tehran from London to Berlin from new York to tel Aviv. Among those represented at the exhibition authors Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, El Lissitzky, Carl Andre, Dan flavin and Pete Mondrian@

the Organizers offer to re-look at this new twentieth century the genre and to reflect on the question, to what extent art is correlated with society and politics. Passing from the development of constructivism based on the revolutionary beginnings of the avant-garde in Russia and Europe, the exhibition traces the evolution of geometric abstraction on the continents around the world, including Asia, the United States and Latin America@

Opens an exhibition of one of the "Black square" by Kazimir Malevich. Along with Suprematist composition "Black and white", which was shown at the Last futurist exhibition of paintings "0,10" in 1915 in Petrograd, these legendary works are the starting points for consideration of the path of abstract art and its political potential in the course of the century. The exhibits are arranged in chronological order and divided into four sections: "Communication" examines the ability of abstract art to the generation of radical change; "Architectonics" traces how the abstraction can strengthen socio-variable space; "Utopia" creates the image of a new, ideal society, stepped through hierarchical and class division; "Everyday life" shows how abstract art permeates all aspects of visual culture, from corporate logos to design textile@

the exhibition presents paintings, sculptures, videos, and pictures created in the period from 1915 to the present day, from the collections of the Museums of modern art in Stockholm and Barcelona, Chicago art Institute, meeting Kostaki in Thessaloniki, the National gallery of Scotland and the London Tate. In addition, one of the walls of the exhibition hall is fully dedicated to documentary photographs by Alexander Rodchenko and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, which capture the radio tower Moscow and Berlin, archival photos of the iconic exhibitions of all periods in the history of abstract art and the selection of magazines promoting revolutionary ideas in art and obshestva@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

the Source: whitechapelgallery.org, tvkultura.ru, artinvestment.ru