Rodchenko at the Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani

The Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani of the Fundación Juan March, situated in the C/ Sant Miquel, 11 in Palma, is holding from January 23 till April 15 the exhibition, "Rodchenko, Geometrías". It comprises a total of 55 works proceeding from the artist's family collection and other private collections, including oils, works on paper, sculptures and photographs, carried out by Alexander Ródchenko (San Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956) between 1917 and 1948.

Alexander Rodchenko is one of the most significative figures of the artistic evolution produced in Moscow prior to the Revolution of October 1917. He developed theories and proposed new aesthetic norms, above all in sculpture and photography. Rodchenko and his wife, Varvara F. Stepanova, experimented with art and are considered to be key characters in the so called second phase of the Russian Avant-Garde evolution: constructivism, that implied the exhaltation of technical development, production, efficiency and practicality, putting art at the service of society en masse.

The exhibition, organised together with the Galería Gmurzynska, in Cologne (Germany), will be held afterwards at the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de la Fundación Juan March, in Cuenca. Alexander Ródchenko was represented by 23 works in the collective exhibition "Vanguardia rusa , 1910-1930", offered by the Fundación Juan March en Madrid in 1985, proceding from the Museo Ludwig, de Cologne.

Source: Fundación Juan March

More information about Alexander Ródchenko:
- MoMA: Retrospectiva dedicada a Rodchenko en 1998
- Masters of Photography: Alexander Rodchenko
- Artcyclopedia: Alexander Rodchenko

Date of publication: 24/01/2001

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