Today at the State Tretyakov Gallery opens an exhibition of artists Suprematism "... We are three ...". A collection of the Foundation Sepherot - 14 works by Malevich, 55 works and 35 works I.Chashnika N.Suetina

THG, September 5 - November 25, 2012
Krimsky Val, 10, Halls 21-22

Today at the State Tretyakov Gallery opens an exhibition of works by , Nikolai Suetin and Ilya Chashnikov . "... We will have three ..." - Malevich wrote in a letter to a narrow circle Suetin Suprematists-innovators. Suetin and Chashnik were close associates of Malevich, the three of them really felt like a close creative community. Tretyakov Gallery presents the works of the founder of Suprematism and his students. Many of them have never been exhibited in Russia and unknown to the general public. Exposure is made on the basis of the collection Sepherot Foundation.

• Kasimir Malevich Society. 1908
  Paper, pencil, watercolor, ink,
  gouache. 15.2 x 19,2
  Sepherot Foundation
  Source: Press Release THG

In practice, the connection works exhibition of Malevich (1879-1935), N.Suetina (1897-1954) and I.Chashnika (1902-1929) was a long-standing tradition, reflecting the characteristics of the proximity of their art installations. This creative alliance formed in Vitebsk: the fall of 1919 Malevich began teaching in the Vitebsk People's Art School, where I studied and Suetin Chashnik. With the arrival of Malevich school life has changed dramatically - the main focus became Suprematism, the "capital of Suprematism" transformed itself Vitebsk. The attractiveness of the individual and innovative art of Malevich, striking preaching gift enabled him in a short time to organize strong team Suprematists be issued in 1920 to a group Unovis (affirmative new art), its active members and adherents of the new directions in art and became Suetin Chashnik. In Vitebsk, they learned the basic laws of Suprematism and conducted both easel and decorating creativity, becoming almost leading artists UNOVIS.

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• Kasimir Malevich Project Architect
  The second half of the 1920s
  Wrapping paper and pencil. 8.7 x 5,7
  Sepherot Foundation
  Source: Press Release THG

In 1922, after Malevich, assumed leadership of the Museum of Artistic Culture (MCC), and Chashnik Suetin moved to Petrograd. The close friendship between the two artists continued Chashnikov to death in 1929. After moving from Vitebsk both experienced creative dependence on Malevich, and at the same time trying to overcome this dependence without destroying cozy relationship with the teacher. Suetin Chashnik and painted porcelain, made sketches for furniture and textiles. In mid-1920, they created a lot of projects that promote the architectural concept of Malevich. Their work demonstrates the different facets of the relationship teachers and students - from unconditional following artistic principles of Suprematism to attempts to find their own interpretation.

Chashnikov The method is based on the rationality of plastic experimentation and systematic formal solution. Develop your own version of Suprematism led the artist to the original treatment of the relationship is sufficient color and form. In the work Suetina organically combine two lines: Suprematism as such and pointless search for stand-alone version of the system. For it is the most important creation of the artistic image of the Suprematist space: above all, he was guided by the statement of Malevich's Suprematism prirodoestestvennoy essence.

Nikolai Suetin Suprematist Composition with a black rectangle. Circa 1922 Paper pencil, ink, watercolor. 17.8 x 26 Sepherot Foundation Source: Press Release THG

Nikolai Suetin Suprematist Composition with black and green. 1925 Graphite pencil, watercolor, ink 16,5 x 21,5 Sepherot Foundation Source: Press Release THG

Collection Malevich in Sepherot Foundation covers almost all periods of his work. earliest examples - two impressionistic sketch, written in Kursk, where Malevich spent his youth and where he began his artistic career . graphic manner Malevich late 1900s has evolved in style Art Nouveau and Symbolism. figure "Company" (1908) is adjacent to the so-called "White Series" works on the theme of city life and a secular society. "Winter Landscape" (nach.1910- x) felt passion aesthetics "Jack of Diamonds." Here K.Malevich arsenal of techniques used neo-primitivism: deliberate rudeness and expressive manner of the figure, the maximum simplification.

Nikolai Suetin with a black woman saw 1927-1928. Tree Oil 101,5 x 64,5 Sepherot Foundation Source: Press Release THG

Nikolai Suetin Suprematist Composition, 1928. Graphite pencil, ink, watercolor 30,8 x 22,2 Sepherot Foundation Source: Press Release THG

summer - autumn 1915, Malevich created his first Suprematist works and exhibited them in December for "The Last Futurist Exhibition" 0.10 "." "Suprematism. Rectangle and Circle" (1915) belongs to the Among early Suprematist works, austere in color and composition solution.

logical continuation of the picturesque architecture of Suprematism was Supremacist. Catching designing architectons (plaster models of bulk Suprematist works), Kazimir Malevich believed it their duty not specific urban design and rationale of the new architectural thinking in general - the development of the Suprematist warrant. Such structures are preserved unity, the exhibition presents a unique exhibit "Suprematist architectural model. cross and circle" I.Chashnika (1926, plaster, plexiglass box.)

ILYA Chashnikov The white cross on a red background 1923. Laid paper, graphite pencil, watercolor 26,3 x 18,2 Sepherot Foundation Source: Press Release THG

ILYA Chashnikov Suprematist Composition Around 1925. Watercolor and graphite pencil, ink. 23,5 x33, 4 Sepherot Foundation Source: Press Release THG

In late 1920 - early 1930 Kazimir Malevich returned to figurative creativity, which absorbed the artistic and philosophical principles Suprematist system. Following teacher of figurative painting and began working N.Suetin. bright accent exhibition a pictorial work N.Suetina "Woman with a black saw" (1927-1928). "Portrait of Mother" (1932-1934) completes the chronological exhibition of Malevich.

Collecting Malevich , I.Chashnika, N.Suetina easy. Most canvases and drawings have long been in the major museums of the world, hope for new discoveries, the emergence of previously unknown or considered lost works almost gone. more valuable the few works that have come to the attention of private gatherers, adding in quality and content of the collection; their development in the modern exhibition and practice of science is extremely important to study the legacy of the avant-garde.

Sepherot Fund provided for the exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery 14 works of Malevich (4 paintings and 10 drawings), 55 works I.Chashnika (graphics and plaster relief) and 35 - N.Suetina (including one painting).

The exhibition catalog, in which collected articles about artists and their creative union, biographical information and photos. exhibition curator and author of the catalog - Tatiana Goryachev (Tretyakov Gallery). exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive cultural and educational programs.

Source : Press Release THG