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MINSK, 6 June (BelTA) – An open-air expo of Kazimir Malevich’s reproductions at Yanka Kupala Square will give a start to The Artist and the City. Kazimir Malevich art project in the Belarusian capital on 6 June, BelTA has learnt.

The vernissage will be held in the format of an urban festivity. Partaking in the show will be the festival of modern art and edgy fashions Mamont, Belarusian creative and music collectives.

The expo will feature 17 reproductions of the artist’s works. The exhibits have been provided by the Tretyakov State Gallery (Moscow) and the State Russian Museum (St Petersburg). The works are made in the impressionism, postimpressionism and Cubo-Futurism styles. Among them is Black Square (1915), Red Square. Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions (1915), A Girl with a Comb in her Hair (1932), a Self-Portrait (1910).

Kazimir Malevich was the biggest art reformer, a pedagogue, a theorician, a philosopher and the originator of the avant-garde, Suprematist movement.

According to Igor Malevich, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Writer and the Artist’s Grandnephew, who have spent many years studying and examining the archives, Kazimir Malevich is a national Belarusian artist, born in Kopyl.

The Artist and the City art project is held for the second year. Marc Chagall was the personality of the project in 2012.

The organizer of the event is the Idea Foundation in cooperation with the cultural department of the Minsk City Hall and the Museum of Modern Arts. The exposition will stay open until 20 September.