20.11.12

Homecoming. Meinong tobacco barns

I returned to my empty home remembering
My father brought this firewood.
The unused cold furnace
Was like my fireless, empty heart.
But the moon will bring a new fire
To me and warm me again.


Photo Po-i Chen

18.11.12

House for the moon. Meinong


On the roof of my run-down home,
There are houses for birds
At a higher place I built a house for the moon,
My heavenly  friend.
I am happy to stay on the broken Earth
As long as the moon does not leave me.

Leonid Tishkov. Private Moon. Kaohsiung. 2012

Photo Po-I Chen

13.11.12

Who washed ashore? Sizihwan


From somewhere in far places
Was washed ashore of mine
The dead Tree and the live Moon.
Or me was washed to their shores
Me half-dead poet-nomad



Leonid Tishkov.Private Moon.Kaohsiung.2012

Photo Po-i Chen

Stray Cats. Shanhai



At the top of the steps of a seaside temple
(How did I get here?)
Stray cats treated me as a close friend
And my moon, the best friend for all wanderers.
Go where ever you want,
The moon will never leave you!

Leonid Tishkov.Private Moon.Kaohsiung.2012

5.11.12

Farewell to the Moon. Sizihwan

The moon becomes brighter
Before she rises to the sky.
Which way should I take?
By what river will I meet her?
An empty boat berthed the quay
Looks just like the moon
.

Journey of the Private Moon to Formosa
From 13th November 2012, Kaouhsiung

13.10.12

The Moon in Taiwan

Rene Magritte, Le Banquet, 1955



The Moon, The Neiweipi Cultural Park,
from 28th September 2012

18.9.12

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


10.9.12

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

5.7.12

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