Projecting Malevich - STEVEN R. TABOR

Projecting Malevich

What can you say with basic geometric forms?

This series makes use of projection photography---a technique that originated in the 1960s with the work of John French. In this series, paintings of Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879-1936) onto a model, Asimira, using a mini-beamer.

Malevich was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of 20th century abstract art. In 1915, Malevich established the foundations of Suprematism when he published his manifesto, From Cubism to Suprematism. Malevich created a suprematist "grammar" based on fundamental geometric forms; in particular, the square, the circle and the cross. Suprematism embodied a profoundly anti-materialist, anti-utilitarian philosophy.

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