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COMME des MARXISTS -- White Columns, New York 2013 / Performa, 2013

Cat Walk - White Columns, New York / Peroforma 2013

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MARX SUPERSTRUCTURE

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DRESS FOR THIS SERIES ARE INSPIRED BY MALEVICH known not so much for his figurative paintins (my inspiration) but by his famous abstract paintings he called SUPREMATISM.

one should notice that the superstructure which refers to everything above the so-called base - the ecnomic sphere (production and production relations) like law, education, culture, religion etc. - is not

points to what Malevich understands as Suprematism - a chase for the abstract, the supreme, the transcendental and in fact the opposite of what he paints.

Most of the people Malevich painted figuratively were peasants and workers - hence people consituting the base. art is part of the super structre and is suported by he 1 % - or to be precise, it enriches

predominantely the 1 %.  Marx is a dialectical thinker and consturctes his analytical , theoretical and projecdtive schemes around contradicdtions.

 

SPECIAL DESIGN AND SILK SCREEN HELP, design origin: Kasimir Malevitch : Jonny Mitchell , Hannah Proeschel, Henny Eickhorst

2 mm and 3 mm 100 % wool / felt

 

 

KARL MARX SUPERSTRUCTURE

SPECIAL DESIGN AND SILK SCREEN HELP, design origin: Kasimir Malevitch : Jonny Mitchell , Hannah Proeschel, Henny Eickhorst

2 mm and 3 mm 100 % wool / felt

modelling: Constance Walsh, Lily Randal , -- more names to come

 

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SUPERSTRUCTURE, FLYING HAMMER & SICKLE, 1859/  1928 / 19 2013

SPECIAL DESIGN assistance and production Hannah Proeschel, Henny Eickhorst, silk screening: Jonny Mitchell ,

design origin

Kasimir Malevich (Girls in a Field, 1928) -meaning peasons, meaning MARX'S BASE;

Malevich wrote in 1911 "On the Spirital in Art" - hence SUPERSTRUCTURE (MARX, 1967) - and came up with SUPREMATISM  -

for this combination I borrowed from the MOMA owned painting :

Suprematist Painting: Aeroplane Flying
1915; Oil on canvas, 57.3 x 48.3 cm (22 5/8 x 19 in); The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Thought in general police officers are not rich but often are protecting the better-off better than the poor and disadvantaged , they do belong to what Marx calls SUPERSTRUCTURE --- law and order,

here is a wikipedia definition of what is BASE & SUPERSTRUCTRUE : - Marx first develloped it in 1859's preface to his A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859):

In Marxist theory, human society consists of two parts: the base and superstructure; the base comprehends the forces and relations of production — employer-employee work conditions, the technical division of labour, and property relations — into which people enter to produce the necessities and amenities of life. These relations determine society’s other relationships and ideas, which are described as its superstructure. The superstructure of a society includes its culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, and state. The base determines (conditions) the superstructure, yet their relation is not strictly causal, because the superstructure often influences the base; the influence of the base, however, predominates. In Orthodox Marxism, the base determines the superstructure in a one-way relationship.[1] However, in more advanced forms and variations of Marxist thought their relationship is not strictly one-way, as some theories claim that just as the base influences the superstructure, the superstructure also influences the base.

 

 

SUPERSTRUCTURE, REVOLUTIONARY SKY, 1859/  1915 / 1928 / 2013

SPECIAL DESIGN assistance and production Hannah Proeschel, Henny Eickhorst, silk screening: Jonny Mitchell ,

design origin

Kazimir Malevich, Peasant Woman, 1928

Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism, 18th Construction, 1915

modelling: Adrian Saich

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dress 5 -  blue clouds top and white skirt   (top can be simplified - arms or no arms depending)

 

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first drafts.. .--

 

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