The artist Lee Hassall is the representative of Fordham’s interest in site-specific works using film as a sculptural tool to explore differing ways of inhabiting space. Using film in this way focuses attention on objects and subjects, offering them an extended eye. The siting of the 16mm film projection is a response to the ‘holy place’ in which Malevich showed his Black Square in the ‘icon’s place’ as part of the exhibition 0.10: The Last Futurist Exhibition in Petrograd (1915/16). The film will be mainly constructed from scenes taken from the showing space of Annely Juda Fine Art, the site becoming an object, as well as the subject of representation.
Kasimir Malevich @ Fordham Gallery E1
19 September - 21 October 2001
Kasimir Malevich is the representative of Annely Juda Fine Art’s interest in the Russian Avant Garde that helped change the fundamental direction of art in the Twentieth Century. Annely Juda presented Malevich as part of the first Non-Objective World 1914-1924 exhibition it showed in 1970 to considerable critical acclaim. In choosing to show a Malevich drawing at Fordham, Annely Juda is both echoing the presentation of Malevich when the gallery was equally young but also reminding everyone that Modernism is never a closed subject. The basis for Non-Objective Art is the desire for and belief in a new world, a new society.
