Non - representational Construction of Projected and Painted Surfaces of a complex composition with colors

Rodchenko's artistic output shows a wide variety of styles throughout his career. Particularly in the Constructivist period, his new morphological language was changing rapidly. His works included in the Kostakis Collection reflect this expressive diversity. Non-representational Construction with painted projections of surfaces of a complex composition with colours belongs to the group of colour compositions that he usually made with gouache, watercolour and tempera and sometimes with other materials, such as oil paint on paper. In terms of style, they mark a metamorphosis of Rochenko's earlier works, those he began making around 1915 using drawing tools - ruler, diagonal and triangle - which were his first experiments with abstract forms. The colour compositions are, to a certain extent, a continuation of these investigations. They were based on overlapping geometric shapes with clean contours arranged in a manner reminiscent of the works of synthetic cubism.