Vik Muniz
Suprematist composition: eight red rectangles, after Kazimir Malevich, 2007
Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum
Small size: 142.2 × 122 cm
Large size: 213.4 × 180 cm
Edition: 6+4AP
The work is an appropriation of painting by the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevitch.
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The original work is closely related to the development of suprematism, a movement established by Malevich in 1913 that explored color and form in painting through basic geometric shapes.
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“It became clear to me that new frameworks of pure color must be created, based on what color demanded and also that color, in its turn, must pass out of the pictorial mix into an independent unity, a structure in which it would be at once individual in a collective environment and individually independent.” – Kazimir Malevitch
Exhibitions
Vik Muniz. Russian Project. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow. Oct 2007 – Feb 2008
Vik Muniz. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow. June – Oct 2018
Publications
Vik Muniz. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, 2007. p. 173
