VOKA organizes an online tour of Lazar Khidekel’s exhibition on World Art Day

On World Art Day 15 April VOKA launches a virtual tour of Lazar Khidekel’s exhibition We Will Be Understood in 100 Years. Anyone will be able to explore the works of avant-garde artist, the first suprematist architect in the globe and one of the founders of the creative association UNOVIS free of charge and from all over the globe. This tour is dedicated to the closure of the exhibition at the National Art Museum of Belarus. The broadcasting starts at 7pm.

The tour is organized within the project #UNOVIS100 realized by A1, centre of Belarusian – Jewish Cultural Heritage and Museum of the History of Vitebsk Folk Art School under the patronage of the National Commission for UNESCO in Belarus. The first ever personal exhibition of Lazar Khidekel We Will Be Understood in 100 Years opened on the day of 100th anniversary of creative association UNOVIS founded by Kazimir Malevich a century ago in Vitebsk.

This is where Lazar Khidekel was born, studied at local folk art school under Marc Chagall, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, El Lissitzky and then under Malevich. And at the age of 16 chaired architectural studio of the school and devoted his life to architecture.

The online tour will be given by Ekaterina Izofatova, i.e. one of the curators of the exhibition, head of department of contemporary Belarusian art of the National Art Museum, Ph. D in Art History. She will talk about the importance of Lazar Khidekel’s creativity, how he appeared to be in advance of his time and what is suprematic architecture.

About 100 original works were provided by the relatives of Lazar Khidekel: sketches of cosmic dwellings, plans of garden city, aerocity, city above water, the first architectural ecologic manifest AERO as well as UNOVIS documentation of that time. The virtual tour will make it possible for everyone who has missed the exposition at the museum but is interested in avant-garde or just starts to get to know this art movement to explore the works of Lazar Khidekel.

The tour will become available on 15 April at 7pm via VOKA app or on voka.tv on any device and in any Belarusian operator’s network or anywhere around the globe without any authorization. Within the framework of #UNOVIS100 a documentary UNOVIS about the history of the association directed by Evgeny Setko will be offered for free through the end of the year via the same service.

VOKA continues to unveil Belarusian cultural heritage of different genres and movements to the international audience. The success of the world broadcasting of the legendary performance by the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre Paulinka that has gathered over 20 thousand viewers from Canada to Japan proves the demand for such content. Another internationally recognized documentary Who Is the Last? about Family Inclusive Theatre ‘i’ is also available on VOKA from anywhere around the globe.