Russian modernism expert, Christina Lodder, is contributing to an exhibition on Kazimir Malevich.
Professor Lodder, in the History of Art, has contributed an essay to the exhibition, which opened this month (July) and will conduct a gallery tour (already sold out!) on 22 September.
A leading authority on Malevich and Russian modernism in general, Professor Lodder has published extensively on Malevich’s work and was recently elected President of the Malevich Society, which sponsors academic research on the artist and his times.
Malevich is best known for his Suprematist abstractions, dynamic arrangements of flat colour planes floated against white grounds. He subsequently adapted his art to express his commitment to the 1917 Revolution, but had to compromise with the Stalinist demand for legible figuration. The exhibition, which runs until 26 October, captures the full arc of his development and has already received ecstatic reviews.