An Evening with Suprematism

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For [fashion] designers and performance artists ... utilizing Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square"/"Red Square"/"White Square"/"Black Circle"/"Black Cross" as installations and backdrops within the gallery/museum space. Actors/models (artists themselves) dressed in abstract/geometric fashions would stand before (and act/pose) the various Malevich Suprematist works showcasing the designs. 

Tom R. Chambers has used a simulation gallery wall and Konstantin Vialov's "Costume design for Sten'ka-Razi" (1923) (© A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum) as an example of a character/model standing/performing before the backdrops. Malevich's iconic works are used as the precursors to geometric abstraction. 

Maybe such a show/exhibition could become a reality ... similar to "Victory Over the Sun", the 1913 Opera staged by Malevich, the musician Mikhail Matyushin, and the poets Aleksei Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov. Malevich’s designs for the sets and costumes for the opera relied on geometric and fractured forms, and provided the foundations out of which he would produce “Black Square".











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