El Lissitzky, Proun, 1922-1923
Lissitzky +
Van Abbemuseum - September 19th 2009 - March 25th 2012
Currently it is the second part of the exhibition - September 2010 to August 2011 - Lissitzky’s work alongside the work of several radical female artists with whom he collaborated.
The Lissitzky+ project is comprised of three exhibitions, each taking a specific theme, which over the coming three years will shed new light on Lissitzky’s oeuvre. An entire floor of the museum’s new building is being rearranged for these new presentations.
The Van Abbemuseum hosts one of the world’s biggest and most important collections of work by the Russian artist El Lissitzky (1890-1941). He was probably the most dynamic artist of his time. Lissitzky is highly important to the Van Abbemuseum. His work, his ideas and his artistic objectives correspond closely with the museum’s own engagement with experimentation, radical creativity and public participation.
El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1924
The museum has invited Professor Dr. John Milner of the Courtauld Institute in London, who is an authority on the Russian avant-garde, to devise a series of presentations around the Lissitzky collection. The aim of this series is to show Lissitzky’s oeuvre, as well as work by his colleagues and contemporaries, in several different contexts. This three-part series casts new light on Lissitzky’s oeuvre and the context in which it was produced, as well as on Lissitzky as a person. Lissitzky could be regarded as an important precursor of the contemporary artists, someone who was aware of his social and political role as well as of the demands that he made of himself and others with regard to artistic innovation.
Victory over the Sun, the futurist opera that received its premiere in St. Petersburg in 1913, is the focal point of the first exhibition (September 2009 to September 2010). The second exhibition (September 2010 to August 2011) presents Lissitzky’s work alongside the work of several radical female artists with whom he collaborated, while the third exhibition (September 2011 to September 2012) focuses on the dynamic human figure.
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