Malevich-inspired exhibition comes to London

An exhibition inspired by avant-garde pioneer Kazimir Malevich will open in London this week, juxtaposing the responses of two Polish artists to the Russian painter. Report from the Exhibition sees Eustachy Kossakowski and Goshka Macuga rework a number of Malevich’s artworks, with questions of authorship and artistic influence central to the display.

Inspired by Malevich’s pre- and post-Suprematist paintings, artist-photographer Kossakowski documented the first retrospective of the Russian painter at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The exhibition resulted in a series of ten colour photographs, featured in the exhibition, constructed from fragments of six of Malevich’s paintings. Among the paintings which inspired Kossakowski are Head of a Boy (1928-1929) and Peasant Women in the Field (1928-1932).

Kossakowski’s work will be literally reflected in Macuga’s three mirrors, which were built according to diagrams made by Malevich in 1922. The reflection of Kossakowski’s work in the mirrors is intended to invite visitors to experience both intimacy with and distance from Malevich’s original imagery.

The exhibition will run at Kate MacGarry gallery from 6 June until 19 July.