Russian culture abroad: “Rodchenko – innovator of Russian vanguard” Exhibition in Tokyo

Rodchenko – innovator of Russian vanguard exhibition, devoted to the founder of constructivism and one of the most known Soviet art workers abroad, opened in the Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, on March 2, 2012.

The Rodchenko family has taken part in preparing the project, and the curators of the exhibition, Irina Uritskaya and Gairat Ikramov, have arranged it so as to show the main areas of graphic design of the 1920s, in the formation of which the artist had been involved.

The exhibition features over 150 of his works: photographs, photomontages, book and magazine covers, posters, sketches for the decoration of boxes of cookies, candy wrappers, billboards, samples of the USSR's first corporate styles, for example, the Rezinotrast and the GUM department store, which Rodchenko had been developing together with Mayakovsky .

The organizers of the exhibition have particularly emphasized the combination of the three arts - film, photography and graphic design.

According to the curators, this project’s concept was to demonstrate that the principles of creation of graphic and photo montage compositions for printing, advertising, posters, invented by Alexander Rodchenko in the 1920s, are still the basis for the graphic arts and industrial design.

The exhibition will run until March 27.