L'Avant-Garde Russe dans la collection Costakis

Catalog of the exhibition of the Costakis collection, which was exhibited for the first time in France. The great merit of the Costakis collection, apart from its exceptional richness, is that it demonstrates the diversity of a multi‑faceted avant‑garde, in which the main movements — cubo‑futurism, suprematism and constructivism — appear more open and fluid than we could have imagined, and the personal trajectories more convoluted. This collection also reveals secondary artistic periods and little‑known artists, such as the “organicism” of Matiouchine and Ender, the “electro‑organism” of Redko, the “analytical art” of Filonov and Samuilo, and the critical figuration of Nikritin. The exhibition explores how Russian artists of the 1920s anticipated, through surprising works of art, the artistic research that developed after the war in the West by American abstract expressionism, French lyrical abstraction, and even minimalism and new figuration.