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Letatlin
Letatlin
Letatlin
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Letatlin

by Vladimir Tatlin
Artist (Ryssland, 1885 - 1953)
Date1932
Dimensions57 x 260 x 268 cm
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Credit LineInköp 1973
Object NumberNMSK 2158
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork Vladimir Tatlin was at the epicentre of an explosive artistic development in Moscow in the years leading up to the First World War. He visited Picasso in Paris and wanted to use Cubism in the service of the revolution. The new machine art would be built like a construction, like architecture, like something that could be used by society. In the 1920s there was great interest in gliders and many attempts were made to overcome the challenges of aerodynamics. Tatlin was, however, the only artist to dabble in it, and with Letatlin Tatlin’s Constructivist utilitarianism gains something more dreamlike. Constructed as a glider but with wings that can achieve three kinds of movements that resemble those of a bird’s, Tatlin hoped that future humans would be able to move around freely in the airspace. Selected exhibition history Efter Babel (den 13 juni 2015 - den 30 augusti 2015) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Jorden - globala förändringar (1994) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Poesi måste göras av alla! Förändra världen! (1969-1970) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ryskt avantgarde - Visioner om en framtid (den 14 september 2013 - den 12 januari 2014) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Vladimir Tatlin (1968) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Jorden : globala förändringar : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna, Stockholm : [4 juni - 9 oktober 1994]Poesin måste göras av alla! : förändra världen! : Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1969Jorden : globala förändringar : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : 4/6 - 9/10 1994Vladimir Tatlin : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : juli - september 1968Efter Babel : Poesin kommer att göras av alla! 89plus : [Moderna Museet 13.6-30.8.2015] Bibliography La conquête de l'air: Une aventure dans l'art du XXe siécle, Toulouse 2002, ill. omslag, ill. s 40.