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‘A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde’ at MoMA

Rodchenko - Pioneer with a Bugle

Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian, 1891–1956). Pioneer with a Bugle. 1930. Gelatin silver print. 9 1/4 × 7 1/16″ (23.5 × 18 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Rodchenko Family

Revolutionary Impulse: Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde MoMA presents ‘A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde’, an exhibition that brings together 260 works from MoMA’s collection, tracing the arc of a period of artistic innovation between 1912 and 1935. December 03, 2016 – March 12, 2017.]]>

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Planned in anticipation of the centennial year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the exhibition highlights breakthrough developments in the conception of Suprematism and Constructivism, as well as in avant-garde poetry, theater, photography, and film, by such figures as Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lyubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, and Dziga Vertov, among others.

The exhibition features a rich cross-section of works across several mediums —opening with displays of pioneering non-objective paintings, prints, and drawings from the years leading up to and immediately following the Revolution, followed by a suite of galleries featuring photography, film, graphic design, and utilitarian objects, a transition that reflects the shift of avant-garde production in the 1920s. Made in response to changing social and political conditions, these works probe and suggest the myriad ways that a revolution can manifest itself in an object.

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'A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde' at MoMA