DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV

If we consider the sum of 20^th century stylistic formations around the world from an Eastern European point of view, then the stylistic formations of Suprematism and Constructivism are certainly the most important for the 21^st century.

Spaceships, geostationary stations and artificial satellites of the 20^th and 21^st centuries have in their entirety confirmed the thesis of Constructivist stylistic formations, namely that “functional is the same as formal.”

The Suprematist metaconcept was placed in space technology only once, through the Sputnik satellite. This was the first “supra product” of modernist thought. It embodied “Suprematist geometrisation” and “telecommunicational composition”. Suprematism manifested itself in the basic geometry (Sergey Korolyov: “Sputnik’s shape should be the same as the shape of the Earth”). Meanwhile, four antennae transmitted basic and rhythmic sound to Earth as proof of the real existence of an artificial satellite in real space.

The forms of all other composite spaceships were determined and defined via a Constructivist plan comprising a series of different functions protected against extreme conditions, the external framework.