Room construction no.12
| Room construction no.12 |
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| Alexander Rodchenko , 1920 or 1921 |
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Plywood with aluminum paint, 61 cm × 83.7 cm × 47 cm |
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Museum of Modern Art ; New York City
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The room design no. 12 is a construction of Alexander Rodchenko from its second series of six sculptures (1920-1921). The construction is made of plywood, partially painted with aluminum paint, and measures 61 × 83.7 × 47 cm.
It is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (inventory number 156.1986). It is the only surviving three-dimensional work by Rodchenko.
Emergence
In 1918, Alexander Rodchenko created the first series of sculptures that consisted of composite surfaces (nos. 1–7). These sculptures are all lost. There is a photograph of each construction number 5 and 6.
From 1920 to 1921 Rodchenko created another series of constructions. This series included numbers 8–13. They are each plywood constructions made up of individual rings that can be rotated into the third dimension.
The room construction No. 12 consists of several ellipses made of plywood, which are twisted, but can be turned back to a surface at any time.
The construction is an early work of constructivism . The series of works marks the transition from painting to sculpture in the work of Alexander Rodchenko and in Constructivism in general. The work leads from pure art to production art , although it still remains functionally unbound.
Provenance and exhibition history
Provenance
The work was acquired by the Greek art collector George Costakis . It then became the property of the Artco-Costakis Collection (Art Co. Ltd., Nassau ) and was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1986.
Exhibition history
- Second OBMOChU exhibition (May to June 1921), Moscow
- First Russian Art Exhibition Berlin 1922 (October 15, 1922 to the end of 1922), Galerie Van Diemen; from April 29 to May 28, 1923 in the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
- On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (November 21, 2010 to February 7, 2011), Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 (December 23, 2012 to April 15, 2013), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Aleksandr Rodchenko. Spatial Construction no. 12. c. 1920 | MoMA. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .