Journey of the Private Moon in Lviv

I want! I want! Homage to W.Blake, Private Moon in Lviv 2012

Boy and Moon, Private Moon in Lviv 2012

The Cube of Eternity

ETERNITY CUBE

“The Eternity Cube” exhibition is a curious exploration in the beginnings of one of the main Kasimir Malevich’s art-patterns – the square, the cube and the  architecton. The installation is actually a reconstruction of the architectons, made of refined sugar cubes, and the album with the drawings - the recreation of Malevich’s biography facts, plus video “The Kasimir’s cube”.

I’ve been thinking of Malevich’s cube mystery, what it is and where had it come from. 12 years have passed from the first time I took a small black representation of eternity in my weak hands. It is a long but very symbolic term: the Dradon year came back and presented me an answer. The answer was hidden in Malevich’s childhood: “like photo negatives are hidden in a case, waiting for being developed”. The black square appeared today on a negative and the picture is glowing with a snow-white refined sugar cube!

The Kazimir’s father, Severin Malevich, took his son to the sugar refining factory, where he was a director. “I was walking with my father on the factory and saw machines, new for those years, fast rotating centrifuges with white sugar in there.” Later he writes: “The color should be destroyed, that means that it should be changed to white.” The factory has been fabricating also refined sugar in square pieces, it has been packaged in amount of 250 pieces in a pack with the name “Tshainiy”. There was always a lot of sugar cubes in Malevich’s family, so Kazimir was surrounded by it from the childhood.

Those times the sugar cube had equal 1,5 sm sides, tight and absolutely snow-white. This geometric “present” of his father was the main pattern in Kazimir’s childhood, was the basic  figure ih his creative space. It was a sugar cube that provoked Kazimir to create Architectons in the future, starting by constructing some buildings made of sugar on his infant table.

In 1915 white sugar cube turned out to be a black negative – “The Black Square”. A little bit later the artist Kazimir Malevich has been using the refined sugar to the unpractical, senseless creating of abstract, architect, nonobjective relationship. That’s how Architectons appeared – “with no price, no function, non-constructive, blind buildings” otherwise Planits.

The Cube of Eternity, exhibition at Krokin gallery from 6th September
until 7th October, 2012.
Research of  the genesis of Kazimir Malevich's Archtectones

Boy and The Moon

New book for children of Leonid Tishkov:
Boy and The Moon,
OGI, Moscow, 2012

Private Moon in Prague

Private Moon: light object, video at  Jiri Svestka gallery
on Derelict Utopies in Prague from June 28th  until August 11th 2012

Ladomir in Prague

Ladomir. Objects of Utopia. Homage to Velimir Khlebnikov,
 album and Flying House, 2007 - 2012

Solntcestan(Suncity) capital of the Ladomir from spaghetti and bread

Radio Tower, Stairs and Bread people,
317 Chairmans of the Globe or "khlebnikovs"

Tower, homage to Velimir Khlebnikov

Sun  Flying House ( homage to Ivan Leonidov)
at Jiri Svestka gallery on Derelict Utopies
from June 28th until August 11th 2012 in Prague

Dabloids in Prague

Dabloid banner: universal sign, silk, 1993

Dabloid installation, canvas, acrylic and silk banner, 1990-2010

Banner Stop Dabloids, silk, acrylic,1997 and Faсtory of  Dabloids,2010 

Factory of Dabloids, canvas, ink, acrylic, soft object, 2010

Dabloid Costume: Vladimir Tatlin's face and Joseph Beuys' felt  back side,
1993-2011 at Jiri Svestka gallery on Derelict Utopies in Prague

Derelict Utopies

Derelict Utopies exhibition at Jiri Svestka Gallery
in Prague from 28th June until 11th August 2012

Divers from the Heaven and Rag Sun

Installations Rag Sun and Divers

from the Heaven, found wear and photos

of artist's kin, salt, 2004, on exhibition "Life from the End"

of  NCCA and Tula Necropilis from 19th May

We leave home and come back Home.

Everything remained the same in that house

as when we’d left it and yet everything was

different -- it was illumined with the light of

eternity, the light of universal farewell.

In this world of eternal returns any

phenomenon of the present carries

within itself the past and the future,

that is the eternity itself.

Everything here, at the edge of the eternity,

becomes a symbol and is multiplied through

similarities, as a crystal in its matrix, in

the solution of its soul, becomes

overgrown with its past experiences

and turns into a magic creature capable

of expressing its secret thoughts
about the subconscious events
of its innermost life, in the language
of the objects from the external world.
Thus the artist spins a thread out of
the formless cloud of being,

twisting it round the spindle of his

imagination to create his mythological world.

Private Moon in Moscow

Private Moon light installation in the Muzeon park,
Moscow, from 30th April until 30th May,
20:30pm-22:00pm



Private Moon in New Zealand

Shooting the Private Moon at the foot of the volcano Rangitoto
Photo by Julz Glover

Leonid Tishkov
Private Moon in New Zealand
Photo by Marcus Williams and SP5 Unitec, Auckland , 2011