Author: KHAN-MAGOMEDOW, SELIM O. with others
Title: Alexander Rodchenko : Spatial Constructions = Raumkonstruktionen
Description: Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz / Galerie Gmurzynska, 2002. Hardcover. BW illustrated boards. 206 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and bw. As spokesman of the Inkhuk group, which included Vladimir Tatlin as a leading member, Alexander Rodchenko was a decisive factor in the development of abstract art with his paintings, sculptures and architectural designs. This monograph focuses on Rodchenko's sculptures and presents a large number of works created by the Russian Constructivist. These can be loosely divided into three groups, beginning with the abstract sculptures dating from the year 1918, in which the artist renders the geometric surfaces of his pictures "spatially," assembling two-dimensional material, cardboard or plywood. Subsequently, works that are intended to be freely suspended within a given space form a second series of constructions: These light, perforated interlacings, consisting of similar geometrical contours, were flexible, kinetic sculptures, also viewed as the first mobiles. A third group represents Rodchenko's constructions of standard type squared timber produced in around 1920, which were never shown during his lifetime. These sculptures, constructed of raw wooden modules and reminiscent of Art Brut, demonstrate the universal validity of the principles governing the organization of forms, upon which the constructivists based the composition of their paintings. Contents as follows: Alexander Rodchenko and spatial construction in the 20th century = Alexander Rodtschenko und die Raumkonstruktion im 20. Jahrhundert / Christoph Brockhaus -- On spatial constructions = Uber Raumkonstruktionen / Varvara Stepanova -- Alexander Rodchenko's spatial constructions = Alexander Rodtschenkos Raumkonstruktionen / Selim O. Chan-Magomedow -- Alexander Rodchenko -- the iconography of space = Alexander Rodtschenko -- die Ikonografie des Raums / Alexander Lavrentiev -- Note on the symposium: Construction and abstract art = Anmerkung zum Symposium: Konstruktion und abstrakte Kunst -- Drawings and plans = Zeichnungen und Pläne -- Inventory of space = Inventur des Raumes -- Reconstructions = Rekonstruktionen -- Photographs = Fotografien -- Biography = Biografie -- Bibliography = Bibliografie. VG: Exlibrary book. Stamps on top and bottom text blocks. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on back pasted end page.

Keywords: Russian Artists ; Rodchenko, Alexander ; ;


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