Baier, Simon
Feld und Signal: Aporien der Malerei bei Elʹ Lisickij und Kazimir Malevič
The book focuses on two central figures of the historical avant-garde: Kazimir Malevič and El ’Lisickij. The year 1928 marked a turning point for both of them. Lisickij terminates his practice of abstract painting in order to concentrate on the production of monumental, politically motivated installations deploying advanced media technology. Lisickij's former colleague Kazimir Malevič, on the other hand, is not only returning to the handicraft of painting: All of a sudden, in his paintings the human figure reappears, yet in the midst of a dystopian, empty world. Both artistic strategies can be read as reactions to the excesses of modernity that outline our present situation at the end of the 1920s.
Funded by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation)
