
Title: Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism 12 February – 17 May 2009
Location: Tate Modern
Description: The Russian Revolution was accompanied by a remarkable period of artistic experiment known as Constructivism, which questioned the fundamental properties of art and asked what its place should be in a new society. The Constructivists challenged the idea of the work of art as a unique commodity, explored more collective ways of working, and looked at how they could contribute to everyday life through design, architecture, industrial production, theatre and film.
Liubov Popova (1889-1924) and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) were pivotal figures in the debates and discussions that defined Constructivism. Rodchenko, whose wife Varvara Stepanova was a major artist in her own right, energetically embraced almost all of its manifestations, from advertising to photography and film. Popova’s achievements in painting, theatre, and graphic and textile design took place in spite of ill health and tragedy: her husband died of typhoid in 1919, and she spent a year recuperating from the illness herself. In 1924 she and her son both died of scarlet fever.
The Constructivists compared the artist to an engineer, arranging materials scientifically and objectively, and producing art works as rationally as any other manufactured object. This was, in theory, an art that transcended gender differences. The equality of the sexes was an important Communist principle, and this was one of the first periods in history when female artists were valued as highly as their male counterparts.
Date: 2009-02-15
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Exhibition Hours
Sunday to Thursday, 10.00–18.00.
Friday and Saturday, 10.00–22.00.
Last admission into exhibitions 17.15 (Friday and Saturday 21.15).
from http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/rodchenkopopova/visitinginfo.shtm
Comment by jerome — February 16, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Come up to London this week and really fancy see this show. How late into the evening does it open?
Comment by mediation service — February 16, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
amazing show - great structure - perfectly complements the show on Rodchenko at the Hayward Gallery last year (was it last year?) i really like the take Ben (and others?) took in curating this show. You are really put in front of the birth and diffusion of the Constructivism; i felt the exact same sensation as when i read the Rodchenko’s writings ‘On Art, Architecture and Revolution’. Beautiful and magnificent.
a must see - definitely.
Comment by jerome — February 13, 2009 @ 12:47 pm