Sikorov Malevič – za Malevičom
Sikora’s Malevich – beyond Malevich

Summary/Abstract: The case study focuses on the interpretation of Kazimir Malevich’s (1879-1935) works by Slovak artist Rudolf Sikora (1946), who belongs to a powerful generation of conceptual artists who entered the art scene in the early 1970s with a program of dematerialization of art. References to the constructivist avant-garde already appeared in his early ecological-cosmological work. He began to engage more significantly with the interpretation of the Suprematist works of Kazimir Malevich and his contemporaries after the Velvet Revolution (1989) – but he was more interested in the social consequences of social utopias and their impact on life in post-socialist society. In his paintings, he used and continues to use the method of literal and free quotation, appropriation of works or their elements. Sikora “rewrites,” reinterprets, and intertextualizes the legacy of Malevich and Constructivism in a new way so that their message resonates in contemporary society and points to “critical” moments in its development.

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