Building the Revolution. Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935. [MAD]
24/06/2011.
CaixaForum [MAD] Spain [VIDEO] 05/28-09/18.2011
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
As announced in February, the exhibition "Building the Revolution. Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935" has traveled from Barcelona to Madrid. It will play in Madrid CaixaForum until 18 September. Then travel to the Royal Academy of Arts of London (October 2011 - January 2012).
Shábolovka Broadcasting Tower, 1988. Photograph by Richard Pare, courtesy of Kicken Berlin. © Richard Pare
DneproGES: turbine hall, 1999. Photograph by Richard Pare, courtesy of Kicken Berlin. © Richard Pare
El Lisitski. Sketch for Proun 6B, 1919-1921.Pencil and gouache on paper. State Museum of Contemporary Art - Collection Costakis, Thessaloniki.
K.S. Melnikov , Home and studio by K.S. Melnikovarchitect, Krivoarbatskii Lane, Moscow, 1927-31 Photography by M.A. Iljin, 1931.
The Soviet State that emerged from the 1917 Russian Revolution fostered a new visual language aimed at building a new society based on the socialist ideal. The decade and a half that followed the Revolution was a period of intense activity and innovation in the field of the arts, particularly amongst architects, marked by the use of pure geometric forms. The new State required new types of building, from commune houses, clubs and sports facilities for the victorious proletariat, factories and power stations in order to bring ambitious plans for industrialisation to fruition, and operations centres from which to implement State policy and to broadcast propaganda, as well as such outstanding monuments as Lenin’s Mausoleum.
