V&A Victoria & Albert Museum London Russian Avant-garde Theatre: War Revolution and Design 1913 – 1933 Exhibition: 18 October 2014 – Sun 25 January 2015 Theatre and Performance, Room 104 18 October 2014 – Sun 25 January 2015 Cromwell Road | London SW7 vam.ac.uk/ El Lissitzky: Costume design for the Sportsmen from the portfolio “Die Plastische Geschtaltung der Elektro-Mechanischen Schau “Sieg über die Sonne” for Victory over the Sun (unrealised), 1923. Lithograph on paper. St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music, St. Petersburg More than 150 radical designs for theatrical productions by celebrated figures of the Russian avant-garde. Created over the course of two decades marked by the Russian revolutions and First World War, the works represent an extraordinary point in Russian culture during which artistic, literary and musical traditions underwent profound transformations. on view will be set and costume designs conceived between 1913 and 1933 by leading artists and designers including Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandra Exter, El Lissitsky, Liubov Popova and Varvara Stepanova. Many previously unseen in the UK.
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