• Aleksandr Rodchenko. Radio Station Tower. 1929. Rodchenko & Stepanova Archive, DACS, RAO, 2014
    Aleksandr Rodchenko. Radio Station Tower. 1929. Rodchenko & Stepanova Archive, DACS, RAO, 2014
  • Theo van Doesburg. Colour design for ceiling and three walls, small ballroom, conversion of Café Aubette interior Strasbourg. 1926–27. Courtesy Galerie Gmurzynska AG © the Artist. All rights reserved
    Theo van Doesburg. Colour design for ceiling and three walls, small ballroom, conversion of Café Aubette interior Strasbourg. 1926–27. Courtesy Galerie Gmurzynska AG © the Artist. All rights reserved
  • Gustav Klutsis. Design for Loudspeaker No.5 1922. Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art – Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki © ARS, New York and DACS, London 2014
    Gustav Klutsis. Design for Loudspeaker No.5 1922. Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art – Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki © ARS, New York and DACS, London 2014
  • Peter Halley. Auto Zone. 1992. Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
    Peter Halley. Auto Zone. 1992. Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
  • Piet Mondrian. Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red 1937–42. © DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2014 Courtesy Tate Collection: Purchased 1964
    Piet Mondrian. Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red 1937–42. © DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2014 Courtesy Tate Collection: Purchased 1964
  • Dan Flavin. ‘Monument’ for V. Tatlin 1966–9. © 2014 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy Tate Collection: Purchased 1971
    Dan Flavin. ‘Monument’ for V. Tatlin 1966–9. © 2014 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy Tate Collection: Purchased 1971
  • Painterly Architectonic (1916) by Lyubov Popova, above; Radio Station Tower (1929) by Aleksandr Rodchenko, right. Courtesy Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Rodchenko & Stepanova Archive
    Painterly Architectonic (1916) by Lyubov Popova, above; Radio Station Tower (1929) by Aleksandr Rodchenko, right. Courtesy Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Rodchenko & Stepanova Archive
  • Seven Rotations (1979) by Dóra Maurer from the collections of Zsolt Somlói and Katalin Spengler. Courtesy Dóra Maurer
    Seven Rotations (1979) by Dóra Maurer from the collections of Zsolt Somlói and Katalin Spengler. Courtesy Dóra Maurer
  • Hélio Oiticica. Metaesquema 464. 1958. Courtesy of Catherine & Franck Petitgas. Todd White Photography © the Artist. All rights reserved
    Hélio Oiticica. Metaesquema 464. 1958. Courtesy of Catherine & Franck Petitgas. Todd White Photography © the Artist. All rights reserved
  • Black and White. 1915. Kazimir Malevich
    Black and White. 1915. Kazimir Malevich

Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and ­Society 1915 to 2015 exhibit – in pictures

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Beginning with one of the ­radical ‘black square’ paintings of Kazimir Malevich, exhibited at a famed 1915 show in St ­Petersburg, a new exhibition in London takes us on a journey tracing a century of abstract art. Divided into four themes – communication, utopia, ­architectonics (the study of ­artistic structure), and the everyday – Adventures of the Black Square has 100 works by 100 artists. It takes a look at this new art for a modern age and asks how art relates to society and ­politics. Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and ­Society 1915 to 2015 runs at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, from January 15.

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