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Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian, 1891–1956). Pioneer with a Bugle. 1930. Gelatin silver print. 9 1/4 × 7 1/16″ (23.5 × 18 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Rodchenko Family
Exhibition
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
4 Dec 2016 – 12 Mar 2017
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Monday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Tuesday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 10:30 – 19:00
Address
- 11 West 53 Street
- New York
New York - NY 10019
- United States
Travel Information
- From the east side of Manhattan M1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 to 53rd Street From the west side of Manhattan M50 cross-town to 50th Street. Proceed to 53rd Street.
- From the east side of Manhattan 6 train to 51st Street, transfer to the E or M train; one stop to 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue From the west side of Manhattan E or M train to 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, or B, D, or F train to 47-50 Street Rockefeller Center
Covering the period of artistic innovation between 1912 and 1934, this exhibition traces the arc of pioneering Russian avant-garde production from World War I through the 1917 Revolution and the completion of the first Five-Year Plan.
About
Bringing together major works from MoMA’s extraordinary collection, the exhibition features breakthrough experimental projects in painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, book and graphic design, film, photography, and architecture by leading figures such as Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Liubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, and Dziga Vertov, among others.
Coinciding with the centennial of the Russian Revolution, this exhibition examines key developments across the mediums in the conception of Cubo-Futurism, Suprematism, Transrational Language, and Constructivism, as well as avant-garde film and photomontage. The remarkable sense of creative urgency, radical cross-fertilization and synthesis within the visual arts, as well as aspirations among the Russian avant-garde to affect unprecedented sociopolitical transformation wielded an influence on modes of art production in the 20th century and changed the course of modern history.
