Malevič’s Victory Over the Sun: the Dissolution of Reality

Abstract

The scenography of Victory Over the Sun by Malevič (St. Petersburg, 1913) represents one of the best expressions of “total art”, combining allusions to the multi-dimensional Cubo-Futurist theatre with the experimental music of Matjušin, and the transmental language of Kručënych. The new idea of space in Malevich’s drawings goes beyond ordinary human reason – symbolized by the Sun – and spreads to the world of dreams, fairy tales, rituals, and folk traditions. The theatre performance leads the spectators through a journey to a new world without the Sun, and so without order, directions, proportions and rules, where the most incredible objects float and dance together in space, as the free words of a transrational Kručënych’s composition.

Keywords

• montaggio
• progetto
• teatro d'avanguardia
• collage