Black Square 1929 © State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Tate Modern's new Kazimir Malevich exhibition takes an expansive view of one of the 20th century's most radical and influential modern artists.
Tracing Malevich's career from his early paintings of Russian landscapes and religious scenes, the exhibition explores his sculpture and involvement with theatre as well as his ground-breaking Suprematism works of abstract geometric shapes and bold colours, including the radical Black Square. A painting which was one of the first to make people question 'what is art?' and caused a shocked and confounded reaction similar to Duchamp's 'readymade'.
An artist thinking well ahead of his time in a similar vein to the star of the Tate's other current centrepiece show Henri Matisse. The two exhibitions work as a colourful, thought-provoking double bill.
Suprematist Painting (with Black Trapezium and Red Square) 1915
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Woman with Rake 1930-32
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Supremus No. 55 1916
Krasnodar Territorial Art Museum
Malevich is at the Tate Modern from 16th July - 26th October 2014