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Lazar Khidekel
Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde will present the comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the work of the great artist, architect, designer and theoretician, Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986). Lazar Khidekel worked closely with Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich in Vitebsk in the years 1918-1922, where he became an important proponent and theoretician of the avant-garde movement known as Suprematism and a founding member of the UNOVIS group (Affirmers of New Art), which included other notable artists such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitsky, Nina Kogan and Ilya Chashnik. This exhibition and accompanying symposium and catalog will explore Khidekel's biography and work, his contribution to the Russian avant-garde, the glory of Vitebsk (the Paris of the East, as it was known during this period), and focus on Lazar Khidekel's role in the transition of Suprematism from painting to architecture, cosmic urbanization, and radical yet environmentally conscious city planning of the future.
FREE Admission | RSVP required.

Sunday, April 21, 2013 | 3:00pm Symposium | 5:00pm Exhibition Opening & Reception
The exhibition is on view through July 30, 2013
YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
Manhattan

Lazar Khidekel
Purchase the 36 page full color catalog of Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde.

To purchase online:
$15.00 - Catalog

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

Book presentation by Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, Award winner of Compass Translation Award 2013
"A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva"
Soon to be available in a Russian-language version, translated by Maria Malikova (Institute of Russian Literature [Pushkin House], St. Petersburg, forthcoming 2013?)
In this engaging and penetrating study, which was first published in English by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2001, author Alyssa Dinega Gillespie focuses on the poetry, rediscovering Tsvetaeva as a serious thinker with a coherent artistic and philosophical vision.
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