Post-Suprematist Sculpture Dishes

A different approach to the legacy of Suprematist porcelain was adopted by the Leningrad architect Mark Khidekel, who is the son of Lazar Khidekel. In the late 1980s, Mark Khidekel started working on a series of ‘Architectural Dishes’, employing the principles of Suprematist form-making that he had elaborated in his architectural designs of the 1960s – 1980s. He realized his designs at the Lomonosov Factory, and then in the United States, after emigrating in 1993. His dishes include Lazar Khidekel’s models of architectonic vases (also, as shown above, repeated by Suetin) and demonstrate a great diversity of forms, based on the harmonic relationships between round and rectangular modules. 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.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.

Yulia Karpova. A thing of quality defies being produced in quantity’: Suprematist Porcelain and Its Afterlife in Leningrad Design. - In: Celebrating Suprematism: New Approaches to the Art of Kazimir Malevich, Brill, UK, 2018, pp. 218, 220.

Today, Mark Khidekel continues his creative career in painting and graphics, as well as creating unique art objects in porcelain and jewelry.

EXHIBITIONS:

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

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

RACC Gala-exhibition – Art Auction, Sotheby’s 2007

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

Parsons School of American Design, NYC, 1996

National Art Club, NYC 1996

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.