Recent Exhibition - Cosmic Architecture and Floating Cities of the Avant-Garde: November 1, 2001 to January 10, 2002

One of the great art movements of the 20th century was born, and flourished, in Russia before and after the Revolution of 1917. Its manifestations included painting and sculpture, photography, architecture, literature and design. Through broad experimentation, two movements within the Russian Avant-Garde stand out – Suprematism and Constructivism. In the golden period for artistic culture after the Revolution, artistic leaders were empowered to form art schools, museums, and theatres that permeated the cultural landscape. Utopian dreams were a constant subject. Cosmic architecture and floating cities were themes that penetrated society through Malevich and his Suprematist movement and then yielded to the Constructivist aesthetic first studied at the VKhUTEMAS school (a precursor to the Bauhaus).

Alexander Vesnin
[Architectural Design, c. 1930. ]

Vintage gelatin silver print
5 5/8" x 8 1/8 Inches"

G. Gurev - Gurevich
Gostinitsa v Moskve na Sofiskoi naberezhnoi
Hotel in Moscow on the Sophiskaya Embankment, 1932.

Vintage gelatin silver photo-collage
6" x 7 1/2 Inches"

Osipov
Design for the Palace of Labor, 1922

Vintage gelatin silver print
4 1/2" x 6 3/4 Inches"

A. Samoilov
Konkursnii proekt na zdanie Tsentrosoyuza v Moskve
Competition Design for the Central Union Building in Moscow, 1928.

Vintage gelatin silver Photomontage
5 7/8 " x 8 5/8 Inches"

Vkhutemas Workshops
[2. Study for Communal Housing, 1921-29]

Vintage gelatin silver print
3 3/4" x 6 5/8 inches"

Krutikov, Lavrov Lopatin, Popov
Konkursnii proekt Dvortsa Kultury Proletarskogo r-na v Moskve.
Competition Design for the Palace of Culture in Moscow, 1930.

Vintage gelatin silver print
6 1/16" x 9 1/8 Inches"

Vkhutemas Workshops
[3. Study for Communal Housing, Moscow 1921-29]

Vintage gelatin silver print
7" x 9 1/8 inches"

Vkhutemas Workshops
[4. Study for Communal Housing. Moscow, 1921-29.]

Vintage gelatin silver print
3 3/4 " x 6 1/4 inches"

Vkhutemas Workshops
[5. Study for Volume and Space discipline, 1921 - 29]

Vintage gelatin silver print
2 1/4" x 4 3/4 inches"

Vkhutemas Workshops
[1. Model for the so-called Chessboard. Moscow, 1921-29.]

Vintage gelatin silver print
3 7/8" x 5 13/16 inches"