Aleksandr #Rodchenko, Lenin workers’ club in Paris (1925) | The Charnel-House
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For now, here are some photos and drawings of Rodchenko’s famous design along with some well-known passages written at the time of the exhibition. It appeared as part of the same show that saw the premier of architect Konstantin Mel’nikov’s outstanding Soviet Pavilion.
Here’s Petr Kogan, an historian of art and literature, who wrote the catalogue introducing the club’s design:
Our section [of the exposition] has no luxury furniture or precious fabrics. At the Grand Palace visitors won’t find furs or diamonds. But those who can feel the rising tide of the creative classes will be able to appreciate the studied simplicity and severe style of the workers’ club and rural reading room…We are convinced that our new constructors have had much to say to the world and that everything most vibrant in humanity will not delay us from knowing and seizing through art the true meaning of our struggle. With this conviction we resolutely enter the lists of the new artistic competition among nations.
And here’s a passage by Rodchenko himself that’s often cited in connection with “comradely objects.” The Soviet avant-garde understood itself to be fashioning a new world.
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