This week in Berlin, the exhibition "Building Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935", which demonstrates the work of El Lissitzky, Popova, Rodchenko, Tatlin and others

Museum Martin- Gropius- Bau, Berlin, April 5 - July 9, 2012

Lyubov Popova spatial force. 1921 Plywood, crushed marble, oil. 112.3 x 112,5 Sourtesy the State Museum of Contemporary Art - Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki Source: artdaily.com

This week at the museum in Berlin Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition "Building Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935." The exhibition introduces visitors to this little-known cultural phenomenon in the West as the Soviet avant-garde architecture.

The exhibition presents selected works of early avant-garde - the product El Lissitzky , Gustav Gustav Klucis , Liubov Popova , Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Vladimir Tatlin , 1915, after keen reflection on the form, space and texture. After the revolution, these artists have been actively involved in the activities of various groups and organizations established to implement the new ideals - such as the Commission on development issues, beautifully sculpted and architectural synthesis ("Zhivskulptarh"). As part of this society architects Nicholas Ladovsky, Vladimir Krinsky and artist Alexander Rodchenko created their first projects of urban planning and residential areas. In 1919 Tatlin created the famous sketch of the monument to the Third International, which, though not embodied in the material, but it was of great importance for the subsequent formation of constructivist trends in architecture. Paintings, drawings and vintage photographs in the exhibition provided the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (Costakis Collection) and the Moscow Museum of Architecture Shchusev.

RICHARD Pare Shabolovka. 1998 Photo. 154.8 x 121,9 Courtesy Richard Pare and Kicken Berlin Source:

The exhibition presents a number of vintage photographs of the period of construction of new buildings, symbolizing a new era, and the portraits of these buildings in the era of the 1990s and later. A renowned British architectural photographer Richard Peiry (Richard Pare) rediscovered these lost masterpieces of avant-garde in the course of several trips to Moscow, St. Petersburg, the former Soviet republic since 1993. His photographs capture the beauty of the buildings and the ingenuity of their creators, but at the same time show that they did not spare the time.

In this new architecture was not only a means of expression, but also the goals that she served. The Soviet state built new types of buildings - working clubs, trade unions, communal apartments, motels, supermarkets, clubs and other public buildings, as well as power plants and factories to modernize the country.

One of the first buildings after the revolution was a television tower in Shabolovka architect Vladimir Shukhov. Built in 1919-1922, the 150-meter tower for its time was the highest television tower in the world. At an exhibition in Berlin demonstrates considered classics of the avant-garde photos of the famous pictures of the tower, made by Alexander Rodchenko.

achievements of Russian engineers, in particular, Shukhov, influenced the development of the architecture of pure geometric forms, tied to the functionality. During the 1920s, born the direction of rationalism and constructivism. In 1923, followers of the first track, basing the new Association of Architects (ASNOVA), headed by Ladovsky. Among the constructivists on the first roles were Alexander Vesnin and Moses Ginsburg . In 1925, architects created a constructivist architects of modern society (OCA). There were only ones, like the lone architects Konstantin Melnikov.

One of the most interesting buildings of the era of Constructivism in Moscow, photos of which are represented in the exhibition - the building of the People's Commissariat in Moscow, designed by Ginzburg and Ignatius Milinis. In the municipal building was constructed two-storey apartments, common dining room, a gym, a scullery.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

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