Tag: Kazimir Malevich

Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015

To measure the imprint that a century of abstract art has left on society, culture and politics, Adventures of the Black Square at the Whitechapel Gallery collates artwork from every corner of the globe
Deb Covell interview: ‘I want to show how far painting can be pushed’

Deb Covell (b1966) is a painter who seeks to celebrate the material qualities of paint. Rejecting pictorial imagery, she also eschews the traditional canvas support, producing paintings that hang from walls like drapes or lie folded and crumpled on the…
Material is the Message

Paper Sculpture The Russian Museum, St Petersburg 18 June 2014 – 18 August 2014
Patrick Scott: Image Space Light

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 16 February –18 May 2014
Abstract Drawing

The Drawing Room Tannery Arts, London 20 February – 19 April 2014
The Russian Avant-Garde: Siberia and The East

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 27 September 2013 – 19 January 2014
With Great Force, Swiftly and Surely

Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction Edited by Iris Müller-Westermann with Jo Widoff Essays by Iris Müller-Westermann, Pascal Rousseau and David Lomas; and a conversation with Helmut Zander (Moderna Museet/Hatje Cantz, 2013)
Kazimir Malevich – The Blackest Square

The fourth ‘Black Square’ by Kazimir Malevich belonging to Inkombank, which collapsed during the financial crisis in 1998, is now exhibited in the Hermitage. This icon of modernism found its final sanctuary among the masterpieces at the Hermitage exactly in…