DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV

Constructivism is a stylistic formation which categorically rejected the duality of art as the temple of deeper thought and the factory as the place of production: “the factory must become the new temple of work, and intellectual and material production”.

In this way the difference between content and form in art disappears forever. Content is what wants to express itself in living, free and organic form. It wants to be content and form at the same time! Traditional aesthetic thinking was aware of the dichotomy of content and form, the form being relative yet still “time justifiable”.

Modern aesthetic thinking in the 20^th century introduces a new dichotomy between process and material. Construction is a clear example of how “forma” “contains” necessity and the power of unification of the two, unification of content and forma.

Suprematism is a stylistic formation constructed by the suprematist apparatus. The suprematist apparatus does not consist of parts which make up a whole, but is monolithic without any joining elements. Suprematist forms have become utilitarian perfection like a realised abstraction. So the colour sequence is not connected with aesthetic necessity. Two principles are most important: black energy and white energy. Suprematism had three levels in its historic development: black, coloured and white. All suprematist forms developed in sign surfaces, which planned their development ahead. Development into volume – into architectones!