It is surprising how few people still know that Kazimir Malevich was a Kievite, that his childhood and youth were spent in Ukraine, that he wrote a significant part of his articles on art in Ukrainian..

“We were both Ukrainians,” he wrote about himself and his best friend Lev Kvachevsky in his autobiography shortly before his death.

As Oleksandr Roitburd says, Malevich teaches to see the essence immediately, and not to concentrate on unnecessary details.. That is how Alexander himself saw the essence of the paintings exhibited in the Odessa Art Museum, creating their own ironic "copies".

However, as Nataliya Zabolotna correctly noted, at Roitburd even fakes are outstanding..

Take a look at the National Museum of Decorative Folk Art. There, in honor of the 140th anniversary of Kazimir Malevich, are exhibited “Copies for substitution” by Alexander Roitburd, made in the technique of Suprematism, as well as the special project of Yuri Solomko “Malevich. Twentieth century ". You will probably be able to learn something new about the great Kievite..