SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION SERIES

We will not see a pure painting before the habit to see in canvases depictions of nature, Virgins or shameless Venuses is abandoned...

Kazimir Malevich 1916

Suprematist Composition V explores the space between stillness, expectation, surprise or confirmation. Opening the window of the porthole triggers the display of a digital video. Closing the porthole window triggers the redisplay of the Suprematist Cross.

This work is part of a continuing series that re-investigates or remediates the early 20th century reductionist impulse as seen in Russian Suprematist art. Exploring the possibilities enabled by technologies of interaction, Suprematist Composition V not only "refashions" a prior media form but turns it on its head by including prohibited subject matter.

For Kazimir Malevich, "the supremacy of pure sensation"  was the guiding principle and was best expressed by non-objective abstract geometric forms (square, circle, cross).