{"id":19004,"date":"2015-01-23T14:09:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T13:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=19004"},"modified":"2015-01-23T14:09:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T13:09:47","slug":"what-the-black-square-did-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/what-the-black-square-did-next\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Black Square did next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19047\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Theo-Van-Doesburg-Colour-Design-for-ceiling-and-three-walls-...jpg\" width=\"716\" height=\"455\" \/> Theo van Doesburg, Colour design for ceiling and three walls, small ballroom, conversion of Caf\u00e9 Aubette interior Strasbourg, 1926\u20137. Courtesy Galerie Gmurzynska AG. \u00a9 the Artist. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Curated by Iwona Blazwick, the Whitechapel Gallery\u2019s latest exhibition &#8220;Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015&#8221;, is a dense multi-disciplinary show that delineates how the aesthetic, political and social uses of geometry have been used by artists for the last century.<\/p>\n<p>The proverbial &#8220;black square&#8221; is in reference to Black Quadrilateral: the famed painting by Kiev-born artist Kazimir Malevich, that was first shown in Russia in 1915. Balanced, non-descript and symmetrical, the work was supremely radical at the time of its conception precisely because of its non-representational content. This removal of composition and study of pure form is attributed as an early precursor in the turn towards geometric abstraction; the \u2018ground zero\u2019 in a long legacy of art production that preoccupied much of 20th century art and continues into today.<\/p>\n<p>Malevich\u2019s diminutive framed rectangle hangs in the exhibition\u2019s entrance like a pristine artifact, launching the exhibition\u2019s inquiry with Russian and European constructivist art. Works by Gustav Klutsis, Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp show the hard-edged geometry that came to symbolize the egalitarian political agenda of the time. However, with 100 years and nearly 100 artists, Blazwick\u2019s curatorial intent is diffuse. The exhibition illustrates a century of incarnations and interpretations of how form, line and color have mutated pan-globally in relation to shifting ideologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19043\" alt=\"Kazimir Malevich Black and White. Suprematist Composition 1915. Moderna Museet, Stockholm Donation 2004 from Bengt and Jelena Jangfeldt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kazimir-Malevich-Black-and-White-Sumprematist-Composition-1915...jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"650\" \/> Kazimir Malevich Black and White. Suprematist Composition 1915. Moderna Museet, Stockholm Donation 2004 from Bengt and Jelena Jangfeldt<\/p>\n<p>Black is a colour that embodies everything and nothing. It is the absence of all colour in light but also the presence of all color in pigment. Black can my mythologized as eternity, vastness and space, while also implicating erasure, eradication and death. Similarly, the square is a vessel for ideas; easily occupied with text, image or design. For this reason, the black square is a mutable symbol, and can be used as an artistic vehicle that teeters between a utopian utilitarian ideal and totalitarian censorship.<\/p>\n<p>These complex possibilities are explicated as the exhibition works its way chronologically forward. Leaving Russia and re-emerging in Europe\u2019s Bauhaus and Latin America\u2019s neo-concretism, geometry becomes vivid and spatially minded with works by Lygia Pape and H\u00e9lio Oticica.\u00a0 The context subsequently shifts up to America, Asia and back to Europe where increasingly contemporary issues such as censorship and war (Jenny Holzer), gender politics (Andrea Fraser), geo-political borders (Francis Al\u00ffs) and cultural appropriation (Adrian Esparza) are given new context within the lens of form as a mechanism for control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout &#8220;Adventures of the Black Square&#8221;,\u00a0the forefront of progress for one generation becomes the subject of critic for the following. Consequently, one is left with works that book-end this very moment in time, dragging the formal visual negotiation vs. abstract conceptual inquiry into the present. And while the unanswerable question of how politics and art influence and affect change remains unanswered, the possibility for advancement seems to be refreshed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text von\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/devon-caranicas\/\">Devon Caranicas<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adventures of the Black Square is on show at the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitechapelgallery.org\/exhibitions\/abstract-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whitechapel Gallery<\/a>\u00a0from 15 January \u2013 6 April 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>See more art stories from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/london\/\">London<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weiterlesen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/review\/\">art reviews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theo van Doesburg, Colour design for ceiling and three walls, small ballroom, conversion of Caf\u00e9 Aubette interior Strasbourg, 1926\u20137. 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Curated by Iwona Blazwick, the Whitechapel Gallery\u2019s latest exhibition &#8220;Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015&#8221;, is a dense multi-disciplinary show that delineates&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[2108,2109,2110,2111,38,2112,2113,2114,2115,1612,1072,2116,1143,2117,141,92,2118,2119,2120,1145],"class_list":["post-19004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-abstract","tag-abstract-art","tag-adventures-of-the-black-square","tag-aleksandr-rodchenko","tag-art","tag-black","tag-black-quadrilateral","tag-black-square","tag-colour","tag-devon-caranicas","tag-exhibition","tag-gustav-klutsis","tag-iwona-blazwick","tag-kazimir-malevich","tag-london","tag-review","tag-russia","tag-sophie-taeuber-arp","tag-vladimir-tatlin","tag-whitechapel-gallery"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What the Black Square did next What the Black Square did next<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/what-the-black-square-did-next\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What the Black Square did next What the Black Square did next\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Theo van Doesburg, Colour design for ceiling and three walls, small ballroom, conversion of Caf\u00e9 Aubette interior Strasbourg, 1926\u20137. 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