SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2013 | 3:00PM
Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
Constantin Boym, Jonathan Brent, Ginés Garrido, Benjamin Harshav, Mark Khidekel, Regina Khidekel, Maria Kokkori
SYMPOSIUM, EXHIBITION OPENING & RECEPTION
Admission: Free
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IMAGE: Lazar Khidekel Suprematist World, 1922 Colored pencil, India ink and crayon, 6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in Mark, Regina and Roman Khidekel Collection
“Floating Worlds and Future Cities” will present the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the work of the great Russian-Jewish artist, architect, designer and theoretician, Lazar Khidekel. Khidekel worked closely with both Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich in Vitebsk in the years 1918-1922, where he became an important proponent and theoretician of the avant-garde movement known as Suprematism and a founding member of Unovis group (Affirmers of New Art), which included other notable Russian and Jewish artists such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitsky, Nina Kogan and Ilya Chashnik. This exhibition and accompanying symposium will explore Khidekel’s biography and work, the Jewish contribution to the Russian avant-garde, and the glory of Vitebsk, the Paris of the East, as it was known during this period.
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