Item #974 [ICON PAINTER BECOMES SUPREMATIST] Red’ko, Kliment. Vystavka kartin i risunkov, 1914-1926 [i.e. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1914-1926]
[ICON PAINTER BECOMES SUPREMATIST] Red’ko, Kliment. Vystavka kartin i risunkov, 1914-1926 [i.e. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1914-1926]
[ICON PAINTER BECOMES SUPREMATIST] Red’ko, Kliment. Vystavka kartin i risunkov, 1914-1926 [i.e. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1914-1926]

[ICON PAINTER BECOMES SUPREMATIST] Red’ko, Kliment. Vystavka kartin i risunkov, 1914-1926 [i.e. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1914-1926]

Item #974

Moscow: Glavnauka, 1926. 16 pp.: ill. 21,8x14,9 cm. Original illustrated wrappers showing the abstraction ‘Dynamite’ . Three other works reproduced in the catalogue. Very good.
200 works were on the exposition for the only personal exhibition of Red’ko during his lifetime in Russia.
The Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist Kliment Red’ko (1897-1958) has been called one of the less understood and distinctive artist of Russian avant-garde of the 1910s-1920s. One of the reasons for that is the very unusual mix of influences on him as an artist: graduated from Kiev-Pecherskiy Lavra icon school, when he moved to Saint Petersburg and after Kiev he has studied in different times under Rerberg, Ekster, Kandinsky and Malevich. Being most inspired by the latter, Red’ko nevertheless had accused Malevich of leaning to the artistic extreme. In 1922 he founded the style called ‘electroorganism’ in which he tried to combine the scientific approach towards the art with experimental avant-garde.
This exhibition was held a year before Red’ko had traveled to Paris where he stayed for 8 years, being actively integrated in the artistic circles of Picasso and Larionov. Upon return to USSR Red’ko worked in TASS Windows during the war, but soon after the war was expelled from the Artists’ Union as the ‘artist who was too inspired by the western culture’.
Extremely rare. No copies according to the Worldcat.

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