2020 JULY 31
Malevich’s panels decorated several buildings in Vitebsk, including the White Barracks (above), where the Committee for the Struggle against Unemployment had its workshops (December 1919). This and other projects – both realized or just in conception stage – involved the city as a surface for Suprematism, and was all part of Malevich professorship at the Vitebsk Popular Art Institute [Vitebskoe Narodnoe Khudozhestvennoe Uchilishche]. The school was established by Marc Chagall, recruiting artists such as Ivan Puni, El Lissitzky, V. Ermalaeva, and K. Boguslavskaya, and Kazimir Malevich. It operated between 1918-1922.
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