Exposure: “Chagall, Lissitzky, Malévitch” Russian avant-garde with Vitebsk 1918-1922

The Centre Pompidou explores a chapter ignored of the history of the Russian avant–garde through the meeting of three emblematic figures: Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky and Kasimir Malévitch.

These three major protagonists gathered around a popular school of abstract art founded by Chagall hundred years ago in the town of Vitebsk, located today in Bielorussia and contributed to work out an art in phase with the revolutionary challenges of the time on: education, the innovation and collectivism.

In February 1920 is born a collective Utopia where the professors and the students form a collective which takes the name of: Ounovis “affirmateurs of new in art”. The members are recognizable with the black square bent on the sleeve of their jacket and endeavour to spread a movement of abstract art in all the spheres from the social life.

The exposure returns over one period of great moments of artistic effervescence by presenting two hundred and fifty works and documents on the Russian avant–garde.

Exposure to be discovered until July 16th, 2018

Beaubourg, Centre Pompidou – 75004 Paris

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