Kazimir Malevich retrospective to open at Tate Modern

A retrospective of Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), leading pioneer of abstract art in Russia, will open at London’s Tate Modern next year. The exhibition, which will open in summer 2014, is touted as being unprecedented in its scope and “will shed new light” on Malevich’s career as a painter, printmaker and art theoretician.

Kiev-born Malevich was a key figure in the succession of avant-garde movements in the early half of the 20th century. His style of severe geometric abstraction, which he called Suprematism, was a precursor to the development of Constructivism. His work was banned in the Soviet Union in the Thirties after the Stalinist regime labelled abstract art as “bourgeois”.

Other highlights unveiled in the Tate’s 2014 programme include major exhibitions of the work of Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, JMW Turner and Richard Hamilton.