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Image: Naum Gabo, Linear Construction in Space No. 1, 1944-45. Perspex and Nylon thread. Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge. © Nina & Graham Williams
Talk
Lecture and conversation: Naum Gabo's life and art
15 May 2019
Event times
6.30-8pm
Cost of entry
£12 (£10 Friends of Kettle’s Yard/ £5 full-time students), booking required
Address
- Castle Street
- Cambridge
- CB3 0AQ
- United Kingdom
Join Jennifer Powell, Nina Williams (Gabo's daughter) and Graham Williams, to find out more about Naum Gabo's artistic life.
About
Join Dr Jennifer Powell, Nina Williams (Gabo’s daughter) and Graham Williams, to find out more about collection artist Naum Gabo.
Followed by a glass of wine
Naum Gabo (1890–1977) was an outstanding twentieth-century artist and friends with Jim Ede, the creator of Kettle’s Yard. Gabo was born in Bryansk, Russia. He worked alongside Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich until 1921, when he moved to Berlin. There he and his brother, Antoine Pevsner, became leading exponents of Constructivist art. In 1933 he moved to London, where he worked with Ben Nicholson and Leslie Martin, both of whom shared his interest in the concepts of purity and structure. Together they edited the manifesto ‘Circle’ in 1937. He went to St. Ives with Nicholson during the war, and then emigrated to America, where he spent the rest of his life.
