Venice Conference 2017
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Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third Internationa, 1919-1920 and Dan Flavin, "monument" to V. Tatlin, 1966/69
The Congress of International Progressive Artists (Kongress der Union Internationaler Fortschrittlicher Künstler), organized by the artist group Young Rheinland in Dusseldorf, 29-31 May 1922. Left to right: unknown boy, Werner Craeff, Raoul Hausmann, Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren, Hans Richter, Nelly van Doesburg, unknown (de Pistoris?), El Lissitsky, Ruggero Vasari, Otto Freundlich (?), Hannah Höch, Franz Seiwert and Stanislav Kubicki. Photographer unknown.
El Lissitzky, Abstrakt Kabinett, Landesmuseum Hanover, 1927-28, left corner wall view
Max Penson, A Thousand Braids, mid-1930s. Gelatin silver print. Private collection, Moscow.
Max Penson, Karnai, 1930s. Gelatin silver print. Private collection, Moscow
Professor Rodchenko. Photographs from VKHUTEMAS. Exhibition at Magazzino del Sale 3, 2012. Curated by Silvia Burni, Guido Cecere, Alexander Lavrentiev

Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde and Pre-War Art

Session 1: Russian and Soviet Art in Germany in the 1920s

9:00-11:00

Chair -- Nicoletta Misler

Discussant – Christina Kiaer

 

Christina Lodder
Exporting a Revolutionary Aesthetic: The Vkhutemas and the Bauhaus
 
Andrei Sarabianov
The Erste Russische Kunstausstellung [First Russian Art Exhibition]:  Refining the Composition of Works
 
Maria Mileeva
The reception of Russian Revolutionary art in Weimar Germany
 
Isabel Wünsche
Revolutionary Alliances: The Russian Avant-garde and the Berlin Art Scene of the 1920s
 

 

Session 2:  Russian and Soviet art in America and Europe

11:15-13:15

Chair -- Zelfira Tregulova

Discussant – Christina Lodder

 

 John E. Bowlt
Russian Art in America: The Case of Vyacheslav Zavalishin
 
 Christina Kiaer
Soviet Art’s American Adventure, 1934-1936
 
Faina Balakhovskaia
Understanding in Order to Ask
 
Ildar Galeyev
Max Penson (1893-1959), Photographer of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Exhibitions and Publications in the West
 

 Lunch Break

 

Session 3: Malevich, Tatlin, Lissitzky

15:00-17:00

Chair – Isabel Wünsche

Discussant – John Bowlt

 

Eva Forgacs
The International of the Square: Reception of the Russian Avant-Garde Abroad 1920s-1970s
 
Nicoletta Misler
Kazimir Malevich Goes to Rome
 
Natasha Kurchanova
The Art of Objecthood: Tatlin through the Eyes of Flavin
 
Matthew Drutt
The Avant-Garde’s Ambassador to the West: El Lissitzky’s Jewish Heritage

 

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