The catalogue follows the experiments in avant-garde sculpture in its dialogue with the space, movement and human body, guided by the theory and practice of Katarzyna Kobro. For the first time Kobro’s artistic experiments will be presented in the context of corresponding sculptural endeavours such artists as Naum Gabo, Friedrich Kiesler or El Lissitzky. In Kobro’s view, the dynamism of our motor skills should be counterbalanced with a carefully measured and organised sequence of plastic (sculptural, architectural) rhythms unfolding in both time and space. According to Kobro, sculpture was becoming a model of the new order to be potentially introduced in our immediate environment based on a psychophysical coordination of human beings leading to a rationalised and purposeful construction of the space of every-day life as well shaping social behaviours. The catalogue confronts her ideas with the work of her contemporaries such as Naum Gabo, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Gustaw Kłucis, Jean Arp, El Lissitzky, Antoine Pevsner, Jean Arp, Alexander Archipenko, Friedrich Kiesler or Oskar Schlemmer in order to show the full scope of the avant-garde experiment in sculpture to the broader public. Text: Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Katarzyna Kobro, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Vladimir Tatlin, Georges Vantongerloo. Texts by researchers: Yve-Alain Bois, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Rosalind Krauss, Megan Luke, Alex Potts.weiterlesen