Malevich. State Russian Museum Collection (Saint Petersburg)

An exhibition of works by Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, one of the key figures in the transformation of twentieth-century art, in which viewers may discover the complexity and drama surrounding this artist's work.

This retrospective presents a group of paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Russian painter born in Ukraine who became a key figure in the innovations that transformed art in the twentieth century. The exhibition endeavours to shed light on the drama and intricacies of Malevich's oeuvre, revealing the swiftness of his artistic development, which was on a par with that of most of the painters of his generation. In a brief period of time these artists moved from Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (and their Fauvist and Expressionist equivalents), to Cubism and Futurism, creating the most compelling Russian art of the first decade of the century and advancing towards non-objective art. Cubo-Futurism was the necessary stepping stone that led Malevich to Suprematism, the postulates of which proclaimed the supremacy of the painter's creative will, capable of conveying to the world the transformative energy thanks to which form is created.