• 14 лютага 2020 года адкрылася выстава “Нас зразумеюць праз 100 год. Лазар Хідэкель". Нацыянальны мастацкі музей Рэспублікі Беларусь • 14/02/2020 – 15/04/20200

Персанальная выстава работ Лазара Хідэкеля адкрылася ў дзень 100-годдзя УНОВІСа ў Нацыянальным мастацкім музеі Рэспублікі Беларусь..

На выставу з Нью-Ёрка (ЗША) былі дастаўлены каля 100 арыгінальных работ Лазара Хідэкеля і дакументы УНОВІСа з асабістага архіва і калекцыі сям'і Хідэкеляў. Былі прадстаўлены раннія супрэматычныя кампазіцыі і праекты гарадоў будучыні: лятучых, горада-сада і касмічных станцый, а таксама часопіс "АЭРА" – першы архітэктурны экалагічны маніфест.

Важным акцэнтам праекта #UNOVIS100, назва якога ўключае хэштэг, стала работа Лазара Хідэкеля "Перасякальныя лініі" 1920 года, якая нагадвае распаўсюджаны сёння сімвал віртуальнай рэальнасці.

Над рэалізацыяй праекту працавалі архітэктары і праграмісты з Беларусі. Яркім дадаткам выставы сталі анімацыі Рамана Хідэкеля, створаныя на тэму работ Лазара Хідэкеля.

Спецыяльна да выставы выдадзены каталог на беларускай, рускай і англійскай мовах (пад рэдакцыяй Рэгіны Хідэкель).

Куратары выставы: Майя Кацнэльсон – заснавальнік Цэнтра беларуска-яўрэйскай культурнай спадчыны; Кацярына Ізафатава – мастацтвазнаўца, загадчык аддзела беларускага мастацтва XX – XXI стагоддзяў Нацыянальнага мастацкага музея Рэспублікі Беларусь.

A personal exhibition of Lazar Khidekel’s work. National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus 14/02/2020 – 15/04/2020

 Lazar Khidekel was one of the founders of the UNOVIS art association in Vitebsk that became the center of the world avant-garde. A student of Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich, a prominent suprematist artist whose early works anticipated the minimal-art, he entered history as the world’s first suprematic architect, innovator, author of the first architectural ecological manifesto of the XX century and the projects of the futuristic and eco-cities that were way ahead of their time.

A personal exhibition of Lazar Khidekel’s work, the first in the history of Belarus, opened at the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus on the day of the 100th anniversary of UNOVIS, February 14, 2020.

Among the guests at the opening ceremony were also the participants of the international scientific and practical conference dedicated to 100 years of UNOVIS that opened in Vitebsk on February 12 and closed in Minsk on February 14. The opening was attended by the heirs of the legendary art group creators: Lazar Khidekel’s family — his son, a known architect and designer Mark Khidekel, with his wife Regina Khidekel, and his son Roman Khidekel, urban architect, as also grand-niece of Kazimir Malevich, Ivona Malevich, and great granddaughter of El Lissitzky, Valeria Lissitzky.

About 100 original works and UNOVIS documents from the personal archive and collection of the Khidekel family were delivered to Minsk from New York specially for the exhibition. The exposition contained early suprematist compositions, projects of the futuristic cities: Aero-cities, Garden-cities, space stations, as well as the legendary first architectural environmental manifesto AERO.

The exhibition was complemented by animations created by Roman Khidekel — fantasies on the space theme based on his famous grandfather’s work.

At the core of the concept lied the prophetic phrase of Lazar Khidekel «They will understand us in 100 years».

The work «Intersecting Lines» created in 1920, the suprematist lattice reminding the world-famous hashtag, became the main visual of the project #UNOVIS100. This element represents the ideal ratio of density and space, black and white, it is one of the idioms that Khidekel introduced into the language of Suprematism. The hashtag is also a reference to the IT sector that Belarus is currently famous for today. To emphasize this idea, young Belarusian architects and programmers were engaged in preparation of the exhibition to create projects in augmented and virtual reality that have brought Khidekel’s futuristic city to life.

«100 years of UNOVIS, an art group founded in Vitebsk by the students and tutors of the local art school, is one of the most outstanding events in the country’s cultural life in 2020. In Belarus, this date will be celebrated by multiple dedicated events, but the largest will be #UNOVIS100. Due to this initiative we are starting the anniversary year with the exhibition of Lazar Khidekel that will be the first ever in the history of our country, and we will witness a truly unique happening — greeting the families of the legendary founders of UNOVIS in their historical homeland».  Yuri Bondar, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Belarus