Relief

細節

Ivan Kliun (1873-1943)
Relief
painted wood and paper collage assemblage mounted on panel
13½ x 8 x 1½ in. (34.1 x 20.2 x 3.4 cm.)
Executed in 1916-1917

來源

Radack collection, by whom acquired in Germany in the 1930s.
Galerie Jean Chauvelin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1982.

展覽

Miami, The Lowe Art Museum, The Russian Avant-Garde and American Abstract Artists, March - April 1983, no. 11 (illustrated p. 25).
New York, Stux Gallery, Culture of Materials: The Russian Avant-Garde and Counter-Cubism, May - June 1991, no. 2 (illustrated).

注意事項

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拍品專文

Kliun shared the Tatlinian veneration for 'materials' by which found objects are considered to have an intrinsic meaning due to their unique form and texture. Following this line of reasoning, their creative assemblage emphasises each object's pure and raw strength, independently and as a whole. The refined simplicity of this assemblage pays homage to Kliun's explorations into the rendition of space through the weaving of abstract planar surfaces. The academically-established genre of sculptural relief is revived with a radical Cubo-Futurist twist. The result is a monumental structure, solidly rooted in tradition yet fundamentally modern in its three-dimensional transposition of linear design.