Mark Khidekel

Mark Khidekel, architect, artist and designer, continues the development of Suprematism, a powerful and influential trend in the avant-garde, following his father Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986), the first Suprematist architect and environmentalist, a visionary whose futuristic cities of the 1920s are relevant today as never serve as a guiding star for a new understanding of urbanism.

Post-Suprematist dishes or neo-Suprematism, as Konstantin Boym, a writer and famous designer himself, defined this stunning design in his article in Louisiana Revy, 36 Argang Nr. 2, 1996. Boym was amazed to see these works for the first time, and immediately included them in his article, being the first to publish them. The works were conceived in the early 1990s and the first complete sets were produced in 1994. It was then that Boym met Khidekel at the Parsons School of American Design, where they both taught.

Mark Khidekel’s dishes are neither decorative nor utilitarian, but architectonic models, complementing his Suprematist tea-sets, which also act as small-scale models of a Suprematist environment, said Yulia Karpova in: A thing of quality defies being produced in quantity’: Suprematist Porcelain and Its Afterlife in Leningrad Design. Celebrating Suprematism: New Approaches to the Art of Kazimir Malevich, Brill, 2018, pp. 218, 220.

Mark Khidekel has participated in several international competitions and received a number of international prizes, including the INTERARCH-1983 World Biennale Grand Prix. For several years he was a visiting professor at the Parsons School of American Design and taught product design. Since 1996, he has been a Registered Architect for the State of New York. Dr. Khidekel has collaborated with Philip Johnson and, in addition to industrial and residential projects, is known for his visionary projects such as Vertical Highway and Bridge-City (NYSun, September 10, 2002, The New York Times).

Today, Mark Khidekel continues his creative activity in the field of architecture, fine arts and design, creating unique art objects, confirming his faith in architecture as art.

EXHIBITIONS:

Cosmos and Suprematism - Diaghilev Art Center, St. Petersburg 2020

Suprematism Infinity: Reflections, Interpretations, Explorations - Columbia University 2015

Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed -ZKM Museum of Contemporary art, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2010-2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/07/russian-architecture-soviet-union-photography

RACC Gala-exhibition - Sotheby’s 2007

Tests of Time. Five Reflections, NYC 2003

Skyline Remembered, Skyline Thought, NYC 2002

Dumbo Double Deuce, NY, 2001 (exhibition design also by Mark Khidekel)

National Art Club, NYC 1996

The Educational Alliance, NYC 1995

Small Format - The Leonard Hutton Galleries 1995

COLLECTIONS:

Zimmerly Museum, NJ; Russian Museum, The History Museum of St. Petersburg; The Fund of Preservation of Russian Avant-garde; Private collections of Philip Johnson, Norton Dodge, Pig and Marie Schwartz, Shimon and Tatyana Okshtein, Michael Steinberg, Yuri Traisman, Alla Zeide, Alexander Zhurbin, Fund of Avant-garde Architecture, and others in the USA, Israel, Germany, France, Russia and Belarus.