Malevich, Kazimir
Malevich, Kazimir
Bio Sketch
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and founder of Suprematism, an abstract art movement centered on geometric forms (most famously the black square on white field, first shown 1915). Malevich presented his work as studies in non-Euclidean geometry and spatial mysticism, claiming to discover "a third and even a fourth dimension in a painting." Deeply interested in architecture, he produced a series of abstract architectural models called "architektons" in the mid-1920s. Under Stalinist arts policy, abstract artists were judged "bourgeois" and banned from exhibiting; Malevich died of cancer in 1935.
Key Works
- Black Square (1915) — iconic Suprematist painting.
- "The Non-Objective World" (1926) — manifesto stating: "The new art of Suprematism... will become a new architecture: it will transfer these forms from the surface of canvas to space."
- Architektons (mid-1920s) — abstract architectural models.
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Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Malevich matters to Geoffrey's digital & parametricism and spectacle, iconic & star architecture areas: Zaha Hadid explicitly took up Malevich's project of completing the "architektons" as actual buildings, using abstraction to capture multiple perspectives and "distortion fields." His vision of transferring pictorial forms "from canvas to space" prefigures digital architecture's claim to dissolve the boundary between representation and construction.
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