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Alexander Rodchenko

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 13:00

Round Table and Q&A chaired by Gill Perry  Gill Perry is Professor of Art History at the Open University.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 13:00

David Mabb, William Morris and the Constructivists. What went wrong?  David Mabb has recently discovered through extensive research of newly opened up archives in Kelmscott and Moscow, that William Morris, Kasimir Malevich and the Constructivists secretly developed an extensive collaborative body of work that has until recently remained completely hidden from public view. In his presentation Mabb examines some of the many paintings, videos and photographs that make up this collection. He will explain his own role in their discovery, mount a critique of the works' limitations and suggest some possibilities for what the artists might have been trying to achieve.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 13:00

Margarita Tupitsyn, A Russian Journey of the Grid  Constructivism had developed its own genealogy of the key modernist emblems such as the grid, and the monochrome as well as theorized on the status of the everyday object in the field of aesthetics. This talk presents a case of the resuscitation and redefinition of the grid's visual and theoretical formats through the work of artists associated with the Moscow conceptual circle in its past and current "membership."

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 13:00

Brandon Taylor, Looking from the Left From Line to Construction: Rodchenko's Laboratory of Form  From the earliest straight-line paintings of 1917 and 1918 through to Rodchenko's article 'The Line' of 1921, lines alone summarised the ambitions of Constructivism for efficiency, simplicity and functionality - and for energy, direction and speed, all metaphors of a new art and a new attitude to three-dimensional form in the real environment.We shall look carefully at the 'laboratory' attitudes of Rodchenko and Popova in their efforts to transcend painting, but with the resourc

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 13:00

Round Table and Q&A chaired by Ben Borthwick  Ben Borthwick, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, has worked alongside Dr. Margarita Tupitsyn on Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 13:00

Alexander Lavrentiev, The Three Constructivisms of Alexander Rodchenko Discussed are the three levels of the constructivist concept developed by Alexander Rodchenko. Constructivism as the way of life and behavior, organization of the artist's own environment and his workshop. Constructivism as the practical environment for everyday life (architecture, interior, communication design) and ideally organized project planning.Constructivism as exploration through art.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 12:00

Christina Lodder, Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design  This paper will consider Popova's engagement with textile design, focusing especially on the four years 1921-1924, which include the paintings that she was producing over this period, the theoretical context of her entry into design, as well as the actual designs that she executed for the First Textile Printing Factory (formerly the Tsindel factory) in Moscow between the summer of 1923 and her death in 1924.

Event date
Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 12:00

Steve Edwards, Looking from the Left  Steve Edwards provides an introduction to this study day on Soviet Constructivism by asking what it means to look from the Left.

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