A new episode of the podcast "Russian Avant-Garde: Between Past, Present, and Future" has been released. Gleb Ershov is once again visited by Kornelija Ičin. This time, the conversation focuses on the connection between the Russian avant-garde and science.
The Russian avant-garde was born in an era of great scientific discoveries and breakthroughs in all fields of knowledge. The philologist Roman Jakobson, who was closely acquainted with avant-garde poets and artists, wrote: "...A unified front of science, art, literature, and life was clearly taking shape, rich with new, as-yet-unknown values of the future. It seemed a new kind of science was being created, science as such, opening up boundless perspectives and introducing new concepts—concepts that, it was said at the time, did not fit into the usual framework of common sense." Khlebnikov, Malevich, and Filonov were all preoccupied with the possibility of revealing the laws of time and space through art.
The poets and artists of the Russian avant-garde perceived themselves not only as practical researchers but also as creators of new systems capable of transforming the world of art and society as a whole.
The desire to be at the vanguard of the revolution being created gave a powerful impetus to the study of human creative potential in the schools of Filonov (the Collective of Masters of Analytical Art), Malevich (as director of GINKhUK), and Matyushin (the ZORVED school).
Find out more about how scientific discoveries influenced the formation of avant-garde artistic systems and how models for a scientific understanding of the world were developed within this art—in the new episode!