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Sorry not sorry to all the art historians out there. Just having fun with some geometry.

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Anthony Hill, Relief Construction, 1962, relief construction with Perspex and metal on board, 52.6 x 60.8 x 13.8 cm.

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saying I'm into "historical fashion" and my date shows up in like a petticoat or something while I roll up in a bright primary colored jumpsuit in the style of early 1920s Soviet constructivism

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Long discounted as an epigone of Piet Mondrian, British artist Marlow Moss in recent years has received the reappraisal she deserved: proceeding from her retrospective at Haus Konstruktiv Zurich in 2017 her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and gained her work both attention and critical research. But while most exhibitions primarily included her paintings the current exhibition at Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin focuses on her sculptural works: until July 26 „Creating Space: The Constructivist Marlow Moss - With Leonor Antunes, Tacita Dean, Florette Dijkstra and Ro Robertson“ shows nine of the remaining ten known sculptures by Marlow Moss, archival photographs of her lost sculptural works and lets her works engage in a dialogue with the four contemporary artists.

The show is accompanied by the present catalogue, published by Hirmer, that contains both numerous illustrations and insightful essays by, among others, Moss experts Lucy Howarth and Florette Dijkstra. Howarth, who co-curated the exhibition, uses Moss’ own words „the substantial, the visible, the object“ as point of departure for the exhibition: written down by Moss in the context of a statement of practice, Howarth connects Moss’ work with the contemporary artists and one of the words. In so-doing she also initiates a complex reflective process about the relationship between sculpture, drawing and photography. This relationship becomes all the more palpable since Moss’ sculptures appear in all of the these forms, a consequence of the destruction of much of her archive and work during WWII.

Florette Dijkstra on the other hand reflects on her decade-long (and still ongoing) artistic research into Moss’ oeuvre as well as her efforts to bring her back into the limelight of art history. This quest has been particularly difficult due to the dispersion of her estate and the often unknown whereabouts of her surviving works.

In view of the latter circumstances „Creating Space“ is meritorious and important exhibition that, also thanks to the present catalogue, finally acknowledges the significance of the sculptor Marlow Moss, also for contemporary artistic practices. Highly recommended!

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Victor Pasmore, Abstract in White, Black, Green, Lilac and Maroon, 1963-65, suspended projective relief in mixed media with Perspex, 81 x 90 x 46 cm.

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Introduction by Ivan Napreenko – Layout by Valnoir.Aleksandr Lebedev-Frontov (alf, 1960–2022) is a major figure of the Russian avant-garde, a pioneer of Soviet noise and a total artist working at the intersection of sound, collage, and ideology. Born in Leningrad, he developed a radical practice from the late 1970s onwards, drawing as much from Luigi Russolo and John Cage as from the experiments of Dziga Vertov.Brought to wider attention in the mid-1990s through Sergei Kuryokhin, and closely linked to the newspaper Limonka, A.L.F. developed a singular aesthetic blending Dada, Constructivism and industrial culture, in the spirit of Hannah Höch.This book presents his visual work through a chronological trajectory, from his early collages and works produced for Limonka to the visuals and album covers of his musical projects. It reveals a distinctive graphic language, combining détourned propaganda, dark humor, and a deep obsession with the avant-gardes of the 20th century.Through this journey, Lebedev-Frontov emerges as a key figure of post-Soviet underground culture: a radical, fiercely independent artist whose work remains completely unclassifiable.