PROJECT CUBE A TRIBUTE

About The Project

as explained by Andrey Lukovnikov

The works you see before you are on the one hand a kind of experiment, a desire to see and find out whether it is possible to make a friendship between photography and three-dimensional objects via heroes who seem to have just come from the paintings of Kazimir Malevich.

On the other hand, we as creators, wanted to excite the viewer, to make them look into the image, to examine it in order to understand what is real and what is not. Or perhaps everything is an illusion...

And, of course, the project we created is an homage to Kazimir Malevich, his incredible freedom in creativity and multi-layered works. It's as if we took his geometry out of the canvas into the real world and made it pseudo-volumetric. Pseudo, as 3D volume is also an illusion.

At the end we would like to quote one of the artist's phrases: "It is always demanded that art be understood, but it is never demanded that you adapt your head to understanding".

About The Artist In Tribute

“Kazimir Severinovich Malevich [1879 - 1935] was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century. His concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms and subject matter in order to access "the supremacy of pure feeling" and spirituality. Malevich is considered to be part of the Ukrainian avant-garde that was shaped by Ukrainian-born artists who worked first in Ukraine and later over a geographical span between Europe and America.”

—Wikipedia

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