dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
künstler: Kazimir Malevich
titel: Mural decorations
jahr: 1931
adresse: Red Theatre, Leningrad
+: «After the mid-1920s Kasimir Malevich wanted to demonstrate the power of Suprematism to create new, vital space. His architectural projects, 'architectony', were archetypes of the Suprematist order: a new, all-encompassing style analogous to the artist's notion of contemporary society. It should be noted that Malevich had already introduced 'Suprematist ornaments', as he called his non-objective fresco compositions, into his 'architectony'.
Malevich's architectural projects were impossible to realise under the prevailing socio-political conditions of Soviet Russia. For that reason, the artist took his commission for the Krasny Theatre in early 1931 as an opportunity to confirm the influence of geometric non-objectivity in creating a new tone in public buildings.
He received the commission at a difficult time. Arrested in the autumn of 1930, he had spent more than two months in custody. His time in prison seriously affected his health, but not his creative spirit, as his Suprematist sketches for the Krasny Theatre murals clearly demonstrate.
The theatre, which had been a Narodny dom until the Revolution, was a building in the eclectic style from the end of the 19th Century. Malevich was faced with the difficult task of transforming its interior with the aid of 'Suprematist ornaments'.»
(Alexandra Shatskikh for Sotheby's, 2007)