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Discovered texts of avant-garde painter Malevich’s speeches to be published in Kiev

"Four out of five texts were never published earlier and are scheduled to be published in February 2016 for the Malevich in Kiev conference," said researcher of the painter’s workpieces

KIEV, January 5. /TASS/. Text of speeches of Russian avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich dated 1920s-1930s were found in Kiev in the home archive of his assistant Marian Kropivnitsky, researcher of the painter’s workpieces Tatiana Filevskaya told Ukraine’s Obschestvennoe Radio station on Tuesday.

Discovered texts comprise protocols of Malevich’s speeches regarding the development of an experimental arts cabinet in Kiev Institute of Arts and considerations regarding education of painters and creation of a new arts academy. "Four out of five texts were never published earlier and are scheduled to be published in February 2016 for the Malevich in Kiev conference," Filevskaya said.

Kazimir Malevich was a Russian painter and art theoretician born in Kiev. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement.