Malevich Quadrophony, ERNI BÄR

[Carina]

From Erni, a fun and very smart move, he sent me Malevich Quadrophony which references to two things, the great Russian painter Kazimir Malevich and 4.0 surround sound!

Below is what I found inside Erni's package:

The black stamping pads are actually protecting pads for furniture, it's very tempting to make stamps of them but maybe Malevich would be offended?

Here's the famous Black Square by Malevich:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir_Malevich

Thank you Erni!

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Oh very clever & brillant.  Yes, this is one to keep for generations to come.  The stars must have been shining bright in Germany ... or could that have been from the Northern lights?

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Very nice black pads x4! Very clever with the red hands, Erni :-)

Thanks for blogging, Carina!

Now to blog what arrived in Greece today: Recycled Buddha :-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Russian avant-garde art since the 1900's was saved and collected by a Greek living in Moscow, he at one time had 2,000 art works in his apartment. Working in the Canadian embassy, he was able to "show" these treasures to international guests, like Rockefeller and Ted Kennedy, and many who purchased or were given the paintings.

He also donated a huge amount to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. And in 2011, I was fortunate to see an excellent exhibit of his Modern Russian Art collection that he was able to bring to Greece and is now in the National Gallery of Athens collection. Fortunately, he always kept his Greek citizenship and was allowed to come to Greece, with his treasures during the end-of-the-Wall year after 1989. Unfortunately, he died before Aug. 19, 1991 and never knew the end of the Soviet Union.

His name is Georgos Costakis:

"George Costakis (Russian: Георгий Дионисович Костаки, Greek: Γεώργιος Κωστάκης, 5 July 1913 - 1990) was a Russian art collector whose collection became the most representative body of Modern Russian avant-garde art anywhere. In the years surrounding the 1917 revolution, artists in Russia produced the first non-figurative art, which was to become the defining art of the 20th century. Costakis by chance discovered some constructivist paintings in a Moscow studio in 1946, and he went on to search for the revolutionary art which might otherwise have been lost to the world."

[Carina]

I appreciate this work a lot Erni, nice to look up Malevich again! Don't know so much about Russia (and we are neighbours!) but I know the people are good at living in the moment.
Claire the package you sent to Marie is amazing, and the A Kruchenykh, wow what a bonus!!

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

Ah Erni, how witty that is  - very cool! And: I agree!!!

Speaking of brilliant avant garde Russian artist's, I made a facsimile of  an artist's book by Alexei Kruchenykh circa 1930 iirc.... On this page scroll down to the 9th picture to see some of Marie's nice shots of it:

http://mariesmailbox.blogspot.com/2012/12/thought-which-resides-in-...

[Carina]