Art project «Black Square [Audience]».
The concept of exhibiting
the «Black Square» by Kazimir Malevich from the collection of the State
Hermitage in the Samara Regional Art Museum.
Audience with the Black Square is Listening to Being
The idea of exposing
the Black Square is based on the following key meanings:
• interpretation of the first historical exhibition of
the painting by the author himself in the form of an «icon» placed in the «beautiful
corner»
• recreation of Suprematist ceremonialism - the
creation of a ritual, the process of perception
• creation of a symbolic image of the «border», the
transition from the «darkness of the past» to a new understanding of art
• interpretation of one of the works of K. Malevich in
1915 «Suprematism (with a blue triangle and a black rectangle)»
• meta-modernist interpretation of Suprematist rituals
in the form of an interactive performance with the exposition visitors
The figurative theme of the
exhibition is a special organization of space - the creation of a pavilion in
the form of a triangular prism, a certain Suprematist space inside traditional
premises of the historical building of the museum.
The pavilion construction
leads the audience to the Black Square, creating at the tactile level the impression
of ascending to the «icon». The walls of the pavilion, narrowing towards the
corner with the Black Square, intensify the concentration of the picture's
energy, at the same time directing the personification of «one-on-one space
perception».
The projection screen
combines two layers of meaning:
·
projections
of moving Suprematic compositions of Kazimir Malevich’s quotes
·
black
and white duality where the shadows of the visitors peeling off the darkness of
nothingness pass into the light of the Suprematist game and make their way to the
Space of the Black Square
The processuality of
perception is staged in such a way that the viewer, after communicating with
the Black Square, moves from the pavilion to a different space, avoiding the
disturbance of the movement of the procession which follows. Descending from
the pavilion into the routine of life, entering the historical hall of the
museum, the viewer sees the screen from outside and the observer is being observed
in the Suprematist space.
The project has an online
format with broadcasting on the YouTube channel transmitting the Audience - the
portrait of the observer at the moment of perception (the look of the Black
Square) and the shadow of the observer in the Suprematist layer (a view from
the side).
