So yesterday I posted about all the stuff in the 'Laughing In A Foreign Language' exhibition and just upstairs was what I had came for - the Rodchenko exhibition! It focused on his photographic work but they also had loads of his posters, books design and general letterpress deliciousness. It really helped to give me an insight into his work and way that Constructivism emerged after the Russian Revolution in 1917. I've looked at countless pictures in books and on the internet of his famous photomontages but everything was even more interesting in the flesh. You could clearly see the layers of images in the photomontages, the imprint from the letterpress and the marks left from the gouache. Also some of the pieces were a completely different size to how I had imagined. A lot of the Constructivism books I've looked at had printed his book covers as A4 pages but they were absolutely tiny! For some reason this made me like Rodchenko's work even more. These are some scans from the exhibition guide I bought at the gallery. They explain really well about his move from design to photography and exactly why he did what he did. I even bought a postcard of his well known 'Books' poster yay!Labels: aleksandr rodchenko, constructivism, critical studies, exhibitions, photo, the hayward gallery
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