INTERVIEW WITH KAZIMIR MALEVICH
6 March, 2007 Exhibition »Artist diary«, Museum ZDH, Moscow

The invitation of Kasimir MALEVICH    to the exhibition »Diary of the Artist« occurred under exceptionally unsuitable anthropological and territorial conditions. The first group of invited artists sabotaged the session. I had to interrupt the performance and invite a different group, with which one very successful »conversation«did take place.

TEXT OF VIDEO RECORDING

AUDIENCE    Are you really MALEVICH?
MALEVICH    Yes.
AUDIENCE    Kazimir Severinovich, I read that towards the end of your life you often spoke with Isaak Brodsky. Do your conversations continue in the other world?
MALEVICH    Yes.
AUDIENCE    I have a personal question. Did you finally settle your relations with Yevgeny Katzman, the co-founder of the AKhRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia)?
MALEVICH    Yes!
AUDIENCE    And your relations with Marc Chagall, your quarrel is over? Have your relations improved in the next world?
MALEVICH    Yes!
AUDIENCE    You also had many problems with Tatlin—differences of opinion. Are they settled?
MALEVICH    No.
AUDIENCE    Kazimir Severinovich, triangles are absent among your suprematist forms and appear only in compositions. Were some works perhaps lost?
MALEVICH    They certainly were.
AUDIENCE    You’re lying! You put the wrong dates on your works. A re you lying?
MALEVICH    Yes.
AUDIENCE    Tell us please, you hung the »black square« in the »red corner«, like an icon. Perhaps, the idea of the »square« was born when you saw icons which had turned black from stove soot?
MALEVICH    Yes.

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