Inaugural Exhibition
Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes
October 23, 2024 – February 21, 2025
Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes presents rare, avant-garde artwork, books, photography, and ephemera from Russia, Ukraine, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Baltics from 1910 to 1941. The exhibition brings together more than 75 works—several of which have never been shown in North America—from the Frary Collections, spanning five diverse artistic movements: Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, and Surrealism.
Organized chronologically by artistic movement, Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes pairs the Collections’ abstract works across geographic boundaries, linguistic differences, and urban and rural communities to illustrate the interconnectedness of European avant-garde artists and the ways in which they engaged in an international exchange of ideas to develop new visual vocabularies in response to a world transformed by the modern, post-war age.
The exhibition also includes works from lesser-known avant-garde publishing cultures in Armenia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia, including a large group of extremely rare avant-garde and modernist books in Yiddish and Hebrew. Artists on view include El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Liubov Popova, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lajos Kassák, and Victor Brauner, among others.
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