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 Rodchenko, Aleksandr (1891 - 1956)
Russia

Portrait V. Majakowski, 1924

Photograph, vintage print;
30 x 24 cm
Constructivism

UID 102-491



Biography

Russian painter, sculptor, designer and photographer, Aleksandr Rodchenko was recognised as one of the most important artists of the Constructivist movement. He studied at the Kazan School of Art (1910-14) and, later, at the Stroganov School in Moscow, where he met Malevich and Tatlin. In 1916, he had a series of drawings in the exhibition, Magazin organised by Tatlin. These works, produced with a ruler and compass, definitively rejected coherent pictorial representation and space. In 1917, he collaborated with several artists on the decoration of the Pittoresque Café in Moscow. His paintings became increasingly determined by geometry such as Non-objective Painting: Black on Black (1918), in which the forms come from the interconnection of different sizes. In the early 20s, he was one of the founder members of INKhKU (Artistic Culture Centre) in Moscow and his interest in photocollage and graphic design had begun. In 1924, he concentrated on photography without artifice, namely portraits of his family and friends. From 1925, he worked for publications such as Tridsat'dnei, Daesh, Ekran rabochei gazety and Sovetskoe foto. In the same year, he started taking exterior photos and also did some sets for films by Leonid Obolenskii and Sergei Komarov. In 1928, he participated in the exhibition Ten Years of Soviet Photography and became chief of a photographic section of the October Group, which he was expelled from four years later. In 1932, he signed a one-year contract with IZOGIZ (the State Institute for Fine Arts Publications) to provide photographs for various Soviet publications and collaborated with Stepanova in the magazine SSSR na Stroike (USSR in Construction). In 1935, he participated in the Exhibition of the Masters of Soviet Photography and, in 1937, in the First Exhibition of the Whole Union Photography both in Moscow.



Exhibitions

Photography in The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
01-02-2005 ~ 30-04-2005

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000

Arte no Tempo de Shostakovich, CCB Módulo 2
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
20-09-2006 ~ 20-11-2006

Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo
MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal
24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011


Bibliography

Alexander Rodchenko. Photography 1924-1954, 1995

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 972817652X

Colecção Berardo, Novas Aquisições, 2000
Published by Arte Ibérica







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