Kinetic Elements of Suprematism: Circular Movement

The 2013 exhibition “Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde” at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, focused on Khidekel’s early Suprematist works and his role in Suprematism’s transition from painting to architecture, cosmic urbanization, and radical yet environmentally conscious and compassionate city planning of the future. For Jonathan Brent, the director of YIVO, Khidekel was a “genius, visionary and prophet who was propelled by the power of his imagination into a future space and time that overturned the “realistic” conventions of his world. He was both an individual living in concrete reality and also a representative of that which did not yet exist.”