Malevich exhibition
07.08.2014 10:16:00
By Veniamin Mishin
According to the curator of the exposition, Achim Borchardt-Hume, this is the first serious exhibition of Malevich in the United Kingdom. “Visitors can follow evolution of the creative work of the painter. We are very glad that we can show the brilliant exhibition of works of the genius Malevich in London, including the famous Black Square, which underlies modern abstract art,” the arts critic notes.
Kasimir Malevich is the founder of suprematism — one of the earliest demonstrations of abstract art of contemporary history. In 1919, Malevich came to Vitebsk as a teacher of the Folk School of Arts, organised by Marc Chagall. Here ideas of suprematism, which had been theoretically and conceptually worked out by Malevich by that time, were further developed.
Black Square, Black Circle, Red Square, Red Cavalry Riding, as well as Suprematist Composition which went under the hammer at Sotheby`s auction for $60,000,000 in November of 2008, are the best known works of the painter.