Composition for the horizontal skyscrapers project (1925) 

Lázar Markóvich Lissitzky (Pochinok, 1890- Moscow, 1941) was a multifaceted artist, a bridge between the European avant-gardes and the cultural transformations of the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution. El Lissitzky studied architectural engineering in Germany, and disseminated Russian art through an abstract and geometric language in black and red (colors symbolizing the revolution) which he applied to areas like typography, advertising and editorial design. The Experience of Totality features over 130 works that cover the artist’s fields of research and exploration, and recreates the Prounenraum (Proun Room), the space he designed for the Great Art Exhibition of 1923 in Berlin...[+]