Art Of The Day Weekly
#400 - from 1 October 2015 to 7 October 2015
The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting 0,10, Petrograd, winter 1915/16. The Malevich room with Black Square and other Suprematist paintings. Russian State Archives
Petrograd, 1915
BASEL – The title is as enigmatic as possible, even the sub-title was… Cabalistic figures, an attribute ("last") with a definite sound. This is a key moment for modern art: artists (seven women and seven men) from the Russian avant-garde got together and exhibiez what seemed unthinkable: a Black Square (Malevich), which furthermore is hanging from the "corner of God", reserved for icons, assemblages of pieces of wood badly scraped and other vulgar materials (Tatlin), streaks, disconnected letters, incomprehensible perspectives. The event in Petrograd in 1915 is a shock. One hundred years later, a part of those works (a good third of the 150 original paintings has disappeared) are again brought together.
• Looking for 0,10, the last Futurist painting exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, from 4 October 2015 to 10 January 2016.