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Once again, we wish to thank all friends and members of the Lazar Khidekel Society, curators and art historians, sponsors and supporters who made 2011 a wonderful and fruitful year!

2012 started with a new solo exhibition "Lazar Markovich Khidekel - the Rediscovered Suprematist, Part 2" at Historic Landmark - The Leuenhof on Bahnhofstrasse 32, Zurich, running January 25 through April 28, 2012.

The exhibition was curated by Dorothea Strauss, Director of the Haus Konstruktiv Museum, in co-operation with Ettore Gualtiero Robbiani. It presented previously unexhibited work and architectural models according to original plans. Over 150 works were on display, documenting Lazar Khidekel's development from Cubo-Futurism to Suprematism, including his urban-development designs for a green city, which from today’s perspective seem foresighted, almost prophetic.

Exhibit Introduction by Dorothea Strauss, Director of the Haus Konstruktiv Museum: Russian Suprematism – a Foundation Stone of Art from the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Lazar Khidekel's personal creative searches from the 1950 - 1960's will be presented at the Moscow Proun Gallery's inaugural exhibition "House that was Built by Proun", marking its 5th Anniversary.
Opening: May 18, 2012, 6:00 PM
Proun Gallery Center of Contemporary Art "Vinzavod" | Галерея Проун, Центр современного искусства «Винзавод»
Москва, 105120,4-й Сыромятнический переулок, (метро Чкаловская), дом 1/6

An article by Ettore Gualtiero Robbiani about Lazar Khidekel as the visionary artist, architect and philosopher was published in Zurich's magazine AHEAD, Issue 3, 2011. Lazar Khidekel's mid-1920s futuristic projects of the "city used renewable energies together with available natural resources to exist in harmony with nature and cosmic energy" called by Ettore Robbiani a Green Utopia, were so much ahead of his time that only today could be appreciated and reevaluated from the position of the magazine dedicated to Energy Revolution as an option for the future.

Read (in Russian) by Pyotr Otlan via Snob.ru

2011

First solo exhibition of Lazar Khidekel in Europe "Lazar Markovich Khidekel - the Rediscovered Suprematist", from the artist's estate, was a part of the COMPLETE CONCRETE, an exhibition on the 100-year of development of Constructivist, concrete and conceptual art and its effect on the present. Curated by Dorothea Strauss, COMPLETE CONCRETE is two-installments show at Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, August 2010 - January 2011.

Lazar Khidekel's manifesto "AERO. Articles and Projects, Vitebsk, 1920, has been included in the "timeline" which guides the public through decades from 1910 to 2010, thus forming the foundation of the presentation. "Timeline" is presented at a permanent show on the museum’s ground floor, which remains unchanged for the entire five months of the exhibition COMPLETE CONCRETE run

"Lazar Khidekel. The Rediscovered Suprematist" solo exhibition was a great success on national and European scale. Wide press coverage made Lazar Khidekel a sensation of the season (links below) We were surprised to read about the exhibition on our way to Zurich in the Swiss airline Magazine as well.

The exhibition "Полеты во сне и наяву / Flights in Dream and Reality" in conjunction with the Moscow Biennial, at Proun Gallery took place through September 24 - December 28, 2011. The article by Regina Khidekel Trajectory of Suprematism was included in the catalog.

"Lazar Khidekel. The Tamed Talent", 2011. A documentary about work, life and destiny of avant-garde artist in the totalitarian society was created in St. Petersburg for Channel Cultura by Elena Plugatyreva, Olga Radvilovich, and Natalia Radomanova.

The Lazar Khidekel Society is deeply grateful to the New York Malevich Society for a grant supporting our work on a large-scale monograph Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986): The Suprematist Vision of the World.

In conjunction with the exhibition "Lazar Markovich Khidekel - the Rediscovered Suprematist, Part 2" at Historic Landmark - The Leuenhof on Bahnhofstrasse 32, Zurich the jewelry objects based on Lazar Khidekel's Suprematist images were shown – the Khidekel Brand has been launched!

Regina Khidekel
President, Lazar Khidekel Society

Articles & Videos
Video of the Exhibition "Полеты во сне и наяву / Flights in Dream and Reality" (in Russian)

TV Channel Kultura - Article and video of the exhibition "Полеты во сне и наяву / Flights in Dream and Reality" (in Russian)

Art Moscow - Article about "Полеты во сне и наяву / Flights in Dream and Reality" (in Russian)

WINZAVOD Center for Contemporary Art - Article about "Полеты во сне и наяву / Flights in Dream and Reality" (in Russian)

ArtInvestment.ru - Avant-garde Exhibition at Proun Gallery (in Russian)

Yatsan Yat-san Feed - Exhibition at Proun Gallery

Afisha.ru - Reviews of "Полеты во сне и наяву / Flights in Dream and Reality" (in Russian)

TV Channel Kultura - Article and video of the Exhibition "Полеты во сне и наяву / Flights in Dream and Reality" (in Russian)

ArtGuide.ru - Proun Gallery listing

ART TV

November 27, 2010 - Schweizer Illustrierte
Keineswegs Kleinkariert
by Kati Moser
(in German)

To read this article as a PDF,

November 18, 2010 - Neue Zurcher Zeitung
Avantgardistische Kunst - losgelost von allem Irdischen
by Brigitte Ulmer
(in German)
To read this article as a PDF,

Gazeta.ru - The Illusion of Flight (in Russian)

Publications

Publication of the monograph Lazar Khidekel by O.S. Khan-Magomedov, 2008

The First Suprematist Architect - review of the monograph by O.S. Khan-Magomedov, 2008 (in Russian)

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