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Molto bella la mostra, ora in corso allo Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam, sulle avanguardie russe, con una particolare attenzione a Malevich.
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The Stedelijk
Museum Amsterdam holds the largest collection of Malevich’s work outside
of Russia, which was the subject of a large-scale exhibition at the museum
in 1989. Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde is a tribute to
the artist and his contemporaries, as well as the culmination of 2013 as the
year celebrating Dutch–Russian relations in the Netherlands.
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The exhibition is
co-produced with Tate Modern, London, and the Art and Exhibition Hall of the
Federal Republic of Germany (Bundeskunsthalle), Bonn, where it will travel in
2014. Each venue explores Malevich’s rich career from distinctive vantage
points, focusing on different aspects of the artist’s
remarkable career, including the context in which he formed his unique
language, the radicality of his artistic trajectory, and his later return to
landscapes and figures. Seen in their totality, these exhibitions thus provide
the unprecedented opportunity to reassess one of the defining figures of
twentieth-century modernism.
Organized by
Stedelijk Museum curators Geurt Imanse and Bart Rutten, the
Stedelijk’s presentation of more than 500 works places Malevich within the
context of his contemporaries.
Not only an
artist, he was an influential teacher and a passionate advocate of the
“new” art. The show is a tribute to the Russian avant- garde of the early
20th century, with Malevich as its focal point. Although best known for his
purely abstract work, he was inspired by diverse art movements of his day,
including Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism; his own visual
language was also influenced by Russian icon painting and folk art. Through oil
paintings, gouaches, drawings, and sculptures, the exhibition traces the rich
variety of his oeuvre. All the phases in Malevich’s career will be on
view, from his Impressionist period to his iconic Suprematist phase—his Black
Square was its most radical consequence—to the lesser-known figurative works
that followed.
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Kazimir Malevich
and the Russian Avant-Garde will unite the exceptional collections of
Nikolai Khardzhiev (via the Khardzhiev Foundation under the stewardship of the
Stedelijk) and Georges Costakis (housed by the State Museum of Contemporary
Art, Thessaloniki) for the first time. Pioneering Russian collectors of the
Russian avant-garde, Khardzhiev and Costakis assembled considerable holdings of
works during a time when abstract art was forbidden in the Soviet Union.
Works on paper
offer vital insights into Malevich’s artistic development.
Recent research—in which the Stedelijk Museum played an important
role—reveals that it is in his drawings that we can follow his
artistic quest in the best possible way. Never before have so many
Malevich works on paper— mostly from the Khardzhiev Collection—been on public
display together.
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The exhibition
celebrates a number of milestones. It was precisely one hundred years ago that
the experimental Cubo-Futurist opera Victory over the Sun (1913) was
performed, for which Malevich designed radical, non-realistic sets and
costumes. The opera was a turning point in the artist’s career,
marking his first experiments with total abstraction. Moreover, it has
been ninety years since the first major exhibition of Russian nineteenth- and
twentieth- century art—the first Russian Art Show, including work by
Malevich—was on view at the Stedelijk Museum; the Stedelijk was the
first museum to present Malevich’s Suprematism outside of Russia. In
addition, Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde is the
artistic culmination of 2013, a year celebrating Dutch– Russian relations.
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Marc Chagall,
Ilia Chashnik, Boris Ender, Ksenia Ender, Maria Ender, Yurii Ender, Natalia
Goncharova, Wassily Kandinsky, Ivan Kyun, Mikhail Larionov, El Lissitzky,
Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Matyushin, Mikhail Menkov, Vera Pestel, Lyubov
Popova, Ivan Puni, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Nikolai Suetin, Vladimir
Tatlin and Nadezhda Udaltsova.
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