‘Cosa Mentale’, a case of mind. The picture is absolute.
It no longer represents, it simply is.
On his deathbed Malevich had been exhibited with the
‘Balck Square’ above him, and mourners at his funeral rally were permitted to
wave a banner bearing a black square.
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (Russia/Ukraine
1878-1935) - Black Square, 1915, oil on
linen, 79.5 x 79.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
“There will be always
another spring, for in it lies the birth of a new universal step.”
–
Kasimir Malevich on ‘Non-Objective Art and Suprematism’, 1919
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