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Word: kasimir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sees in every English town-and removes religious or commemorative use, leaving an abstract residue. The crosses are worked up with cuts, angles and elegant inflections of thickness. The cenotaphs stick out horizontally from the wall, very much like the "architectons," the suprematist sculptural fantasies designed by the Russian Kasimir Malevich 60 years ago. Indeed, the spirit of Russian constructivism-spare, idealizing, but wedded to primary forms and to the nature of industrial material-presides over Milow's work, lending it a subtle dignity. Tim Head's photo projections are studies in uncertainty. Images of ordinary things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Sticks to Cenotaphs | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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