MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. The complete collection of paintings by Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) opens in Moscow on Friday.
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The project titled "Kazimir Malevich. Not Only Black Square" will be open for visitors at the VDNKh complex (the All-Union Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) until February 25, 2018, the project’s supervisor Alexandra Shatskikh told TASS.
"This is an educational project. There hasn’t been such a complete exhibition of paintings since 1988, when Malevich was first recognized in Russia," she said.
The exhibition comprises the artist’s works borrowed from regional and private collections.
Kazimir Malevich was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-guarde Surpematist movement. He is most known for his Suprematist painting Black Square (1915).